# movements of the mind chapter 4 **Opening (not a real abstract):** Intending as Practical Remembering 4.1 Introduction Acting on an intention involves the agent’s intending, a simultaneous action of practical reasoning as she acts. The practical life of intention is tied up with practical reasoning. Intention is typically established when an agent decides to act, and it informs additional reasoning such as identifying appropriate targets or determining means to ends, leading to more precise intentions. A distinctive output of practical reasoning is the establishment and elaboration, namely fine-tuning, of intention. Intention pervades all aspects of agency. Intentions can lapse (Section 3.6). One intends to do something but gets sidetracked. One sets some soup to boil on the stove, determined to come back in a minute . . . just one short email to finish. Two futures loom: (1) one efficiently