Is intending just remembering?

I assess Wayne Wu's thesis that intention is a form of practical memory functionally analogous to working memory. Wu argues that being active in intention involves vigilance and steadfastness (sustaining attention). I argue that being active in intention also requires strategic management , a distinct process of modulating intention's influence against other sources of bias like habit or emotion. I argue this strategic management (which relies on a particular form of practical reasoning I identify as meta‐reasoning) is not reducible to Wu's concepts of steadfastness or fine‐tuning, and conclude that an agent's activeness in intention involves more than the memory‐like functions Wu identifies.