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    It is not the case that Agents often enter self-deception motivated by a desire that p be false (e.g., 'I want it not to be true that I am ill'), not merely a desire to believe p.

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    • 1.Desires for reality and desires for belief collapse together: wanting p false requires believing it possible, which requires some belief-desire about it.
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    • 2.The distinction conflates causal motivation with intentional content; both desire-types could drive identical self-deceptive behavior mechanically.
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    • 3.Parsimony favors single-desire explanations: desire to believe not-p adequately explains the evidence without positing desires about external facts.
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    • 1.Desires about reality (wanting p false) are phenomenologically distinct from desires about belief (wanting to believe not-p).
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    • 2.Self-deception often persists even when the agent recognizes the belief is unjustified, suggesting motivation targets reality, not just mental states.
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    • 3.Wishful thinking explains why agents resist evidence: they desire the world differ, not merely desire comforting thoughts about it.
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