Intent

Can you prove intent??
Can you prove the intentions of the person?? Everyone has intentions, people can intend to do something but then decide not to do it because of circumstances. So how can we prove they had the right intentions in the beginning?
The way I see it everyone has intentions for many different things each day. We can’t prove if there intentions are honourable or not…but it is safe to say that a everyone does have a motive for their actions… these motives or intent should be based on what type of person are they, what are their belief systems. For example a religious person would try to be their interpretation of righteous person, an artist would try to interpret their feelings, a business man would try becoming successful. Everyone is different; we can not be certain for a person’s intent and could be the reasons for frustrations in the work force, gossip, feuds and other problems.
But people are people…everyone has a belief system but are they true to it…people’s intentions differ to any group. Lawyers try to justify a murderer’s intent of his crime, they might not approve of it but it is their job. They do not have to take the job, but then what is the intention of the lawyer to take the job; is it money or proving they are the best?
Personally what I do to understand a persons intent is to imagine why a person would do or say something if I said or did it…this makes my interpretation of their intent bias…though I try to understand. As embodied in “To Kill A Mocking Bird” try stepping in another persons shoes and see their perspective before judging.

­­­­­­­­­In this paper the notion of collective intention in teams of agents involved in cooperative problem solving (CPS) in multiagent systems (MAS) is investigated. Starting from individual intentions, goals}, and beliefs defining agents' local asocial motivational and informational attitudes, we arrive at an understanding of collective intention in cooperative teams. The presented definitions are rather strong, in particular a collective intention implies that all members intend for all others to share that intention. Thus a team is created on the basis of collective intention, and exists as long as this attitude between team members exists, after which the group may disintegrate. For this reason it is crucial that collective intention lasts long enough. Collective intentions are formalized in a multi-modal logical framework. Completeness of this logic with respect to an appropriate class of Kripke models is proved. Two versions of collective intentions are discussed in the context of different situations. It is assumed that these definitions reflect solely vital aspects of motivational attitudes, leaving room for case-specific extensions. This makes the framework flexible and not overloaded. Together with individual and collective knowledge and belief, collective intention constitutes a basis for preparing a plan, reflected in the strongest attitude, i.e., in collective commitment, defined and investigated in our other papers.[1]
[1] 1Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, Banacha 2, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland2Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Ordona 21, 01-237 Warsaw, Poland3Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, 9712 TS Groningen, The Netherlands
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