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Henry Allison's Incorporation Thesis (hereafter IT) is that an agent's true self is mapped by his or her intentions first, with desires reflecting an agent's real personality only if he or she incorporates those desires into his or her intentions.
I'm not entirely sure what value this thread is going to have, but anyway, the point of it is to present two models of the above for you guys to evaluate:
1. The IT means that an agent's subjective motivational set (SMS) contains elements only by that agent's choices (namely the choices of which motives to add to the set).
2. The IT means that an agent's true self is proactive, not passively related to our consciousness like our desires are (i.e. our desires "happen to" us, they don't emerge directly from our will).
Does Allison already say (1) (in his writing)? I think someone has already said (2). (Note for the inattentive: (1) and (2) don't necessarily conflict.)
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