Baßler has provided me with a plausible and testable extension of my Intentional System Theory with his innovation of a 1.5th-order intentional system, showing in outline how higher-order intentional systems might evolve from their more primitive ancestors. And he has also shown new ways of explaining a point that many people just cannot get their heads around. As my former student Ivan Fox (1989) once put it, “Thrown into a causal gap, a quale will simply fall through it.” See also Fox’s essay, “Our Knowledge of the Internal World” (1994) and my commentary on it (1994), which I discovered, on rereading just now, to be groping towards some of the points in Baßler’s commentary. I challenged Ivan Fox to “push further into the engineering and not just revel in the specs” (Dennett 1994, p. 510), and Baßler has done just that.