Intention mapping as a concept. What is intention mapping? Intention mapping could to some extent be an aspect of game theory, artificial intelligence, highway driving, war, relativistic psychology, and just about anything.
How does one guarantee or prove intent? Intent to murder. Intent to do just about anything? Intention mapping can be preemptive or after the fact analysis of things. We will focus on the possibilities or the yet to become perspective.
Where does an intention come from? What given the uncertainty principle is ever truly fully concrete? If our psychologies are a maelstrom of chemicals and we do not have access to quantum space to guarantee things at an atomic level or to rigidly program logic into our own minds, then what percentage of free will do we really have? How much of free will is left up to fate or some behind the scenes neuro chemistry?
The intentions of a player are highly dependent on the situation that player is in? Let us take war for example. If the US invades a country, it should be obvious that the inhabitants of that country are going to be inherently militant simply based on our presence there. What gives the US or any other country the “right” to invade or occupy another country other than to attempt to proactively shape that country? Other means are surely more effective at doing this.
Mapping out the possibilities of two or more players in a game yields a complex network of possibility trees based on the inputs into the system. Players that have higher intelligence or deeper insight may utilize intention mapping to determine all possible moves or situations. This is likely not such a great tactic in real time combat unless the analyzer was preemptively superior in its calculations or timing of given events. Do football players use the concept of intention mapping when trying to run for a touch down?
Aggressive drivers almost certainly use intention mapping against their associative memory of pre-preprogrammed driver behaviors and further mapped against a set of probabilities of outcomes. When driving aggressively, one must analyze all players in parallel while planning their route through the field. Most players drive predictably. Other players drive in concert with other aggressors. Every once in awhile there is a disruptive player that seeks to have the aggressors step in line while not minding their own business. When using these tactics without also using great care in planning flow, this can be dangerous and therefore truly aggressive. I would however suggest that finding efficient flow through traffic while using due care is not dangerous nor is it particularly aggressive especially when said driver seeks efficiency in his travel and homeostasis with others instead of aggressive queue hopping. Flow is good in all aspects of reality.