Well, once the “Did it Happen?” is answered, THEN there is the matter of “Intent”.
How can we measure Intent?
*Brain reading is currently impossible.* and historical brain reading even more so.
Justification is built-in to our neural systems.
We witness something. 400 ms later, if something is unexpected (a new blob on the screen forming a new word we notice), we begin processing it and start forming a story to justify what we had just experienced.
We continually anticipate the future while writing stories about the just-recent past, mostly utilizing our FURTHER past knowledge to express the “just happened” past, which we consider “NOW”.
God that sounded like a line of babble I just wrote. I need to edit better.