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attention
resource allocation mechanism.
distributed across competing phenomena
attention is finite.
allocating attention to one phenomenon means less capacity available for others.
Attention is Selective.
an organism does not grasp the entire cosmos when it looks up into the stars.
Certain phenomena come into sharp relief while others recede into diffuse awareness.
We are thrown into one attentional state rather than occupying all states simultaneously.
Attention is variable.
stemming from the organism's state changes, environmental factors, memory activation, and stochastic processes.
Micro-deviations in attention cascade through butterfly effects
a minor drift opens entirely new regions of attentional space.
nominally identical organisms yield divergent trajectories
small perturbations amplify through recursive cascade.
attention is not appearance. The phenomenology of attention appears as appearance, with blur and focus appearing as the selection of attention. Appearance is consciousness, or appearance is the phenomenology of attention.
attention is energy. its energy dispersal. attention and time (see scarcity).