Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness. - John Searle

We often attribute "understanding" and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.