For a causalist interpretation, treating the content of intentions as self-referential, see, for example, Searle 1983.
In other words, PM component score evaluated the initiation of intentions, and RM component score evaluated the content of intentions.
The content of intentions constrains the exercise of the abilities, and gives us a way to mark out those abilities that constitute control over a given action.
Therefore, one aim of the present study was to use purer indices of PM and RM components by scoring the self-initiation of intentions (i.e. PM component) and content of intentions (i.e. RM component) separately.
And the RM component was scored according to performance on standard memory tests after the completion of PM tasks rather than by an on-line evaluation which required directly measuring the correctness of the content of intentions.
Furthermore, a recent study by Gilbert (2011) found that although lateral rPFC (lrPFC) exhibited robust activation during maintenance of delayed intentions, the content of those intentions (i.e., the nature of the target stimuli and appropriate PM responses) could not be decoded from this region.
(E.g., when one decides to A, one intends to decide to A). One's so intending is not a matter of the content of the intention that is formed in deciding, nor is it a matter of one's having any further intention in addition to the one formed in making the decision.
A Goal is the propositional content of an Intention [7].
It is implausible that each and every one of the reasons for which she makes her decision must enter into the content of the intention that she forms in making that decision.
One cannot solve this problem by inserting the cooperative element into the content of the intention, so that what the agent intends is to do her part in shared activity.
