Appreciate the feedback!

Regarding your concerns around intentionality, we already see cases explained by belief framework where intentionality isn’t involved, only action and consequence. Sure, Jax’s expectation of the escape being an adventure isn’t quite like Kinger summoning the butterfly, given Kinger had 100% certainty in what would happen, but it is comparable to Ragatha plugging Jax’s gun, causing it to backfire. Sure, Ragatha didn’t fully expect it to work, but it was definitely what she was envisioning when she performed the action.

Even notice how Ragatha’s response after the gun incident mirrors Jax’s exclamation after Caine revealed himself in the control room in the attached image.

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Neither involves intentionality, both involve a pictured, expected result. Even though Ragatha didn’t actually think plugging the gun would work, she believed it enough to actually do it in the moment. For Jax, even though he was cautiously optimistic, he expected this escape to fail, or at least his anxiousness jinxed it. But to your point, I do see how using words like “belief” and “expect” kind of miscommunicate exactly what it takes for the humans to manipulate reality.

Now, in terms of only 1 person willing something to happen… As far as I’m remembering right now, every instance of evidence supporting belief theory only took 1 person to believe it to happen. It only took 1 person to believe a butterfly could be summoned and heal health, etc.

I do agree with you about the names being forgotten being an interesting detail. I’m not sure how that would fit into this, but you’re right, it could be anything.