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    It is not the case that If the intention's validity depended solely on one agent's predictive confidence about the other, it would reduce collective intention to a conjunction of individual intentions, which Searle explicitly identifies as a reductive fallacy.

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    • 1.Predictive confidence about mutual commitment is exactly what distinguishes genuine collective intention from mere coordination; dismissing it begs the question.
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    • 2.All intentions, collective or individual, ultimately depend on brain states of particular agents; invoking irreducible we-intentionality merely obscures this fact.
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    • 3.Searle's reductio may conflate 'reducible to' with 'exhausted by'; collective intention could supervene on individual intentionality without being eliminable.
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    • 1.Collective intentions exhibit irreducible we-intentionality that cannot be decomposed into isolated I-intentions without losing essential features.
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    • 2.If validity rested only on predictive confidence, agents could maintain 'collective' intentions while harboring fundamental disagreements about shared goals.
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    • 3.Searle's distinction between collective and conjunctive intentions tracks a real metaphysical difference that predicts behavior better than reductionist models.
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