Consequently, in the chain of reactions accompanying the creative act, a link is missing. This gap which represents the inability of the artist to express fully his intention, this difference between what he intended to realize and did realize, is the personal ‘art coefficient’, contained in the work.
Intention is when you’re committed to bringing about some future action or state of affairs. Many computational papers use “intention” to denote a goal or action that an agent plans and executes, or intends to execute. In the realm of neuroscience there is a difference between voluntary action vs stimulas-driven action. It’s different from desire as desire can exist without commitment, intention implies some kind of commitment and planning.
Few men, I imagine, who become great started on their career with the intention of becoming so. The intention generally accompanies the unsuccessful. The secret of real greatness seems to be a happy knack of doing things as they come in your way; and they rarely present themselves in the form which careful preparation would enable you to deal with.
Links
- Hidden intentions: Visual awareness prioritizes perceived attention even without eyes or faces: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027721003243
- A Multi-Category Theory of Intention: https://scazlab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Admoni-Cogsci-12.pdf
- The Human Intention: A Taxonomy Attempt and Its Applications to Robotics: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12369-025-01304-8
- Intention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention
- Understanding the intention-behavior gap: The role of intention strength: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9386038/
- Health action process approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_action_process_approach
- Self-determination theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory
- Intention Concepts and Brain-Machine Interfacing: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3497890/
- Uncovering the Unseen: Discover Hidden Intentions by Micro-Behavior Graph Reasoning: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15169
- Tell Me More! Towards Implicit User Intention Understanding of Language Model Driven Agents: https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.61/
- Implicit Measures: Procedures, Use, and Interpretation: https://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~schaller/528Readings/GawronskiHahn2019.pdf
- Implicit mechanisms of intention: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9090994/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situated_cognition