Principles of Attention

These words were condensed in September 2020 in Ukraine.

1. Mutable assembly of preferences and limits on what is observed by perception makes an attention.
2. Total available processing power, that may be leveraged by perception, makes an attention span. That is to say, there can be only so many active agents of a perception at a time. That is to say, attention spans inherently have limits.
3. Once a measurement of a signal starts, it makes a load on attention span by reserving a certain amount of it to perform the interpretation. When a measurement finishes, its load on attention span is released.
4. The more concurrent interpretations a perception undertakes through its agents and their optics, the more it loads its attention span. Optics with higher resolution make heavier loads; optics with lower resolution are lighter in that regard.
5. An interpretation can overload attention span, but produce an unexpected value as a result. Unexpected values are values that for the same signal are different from the values that a measurement would usually make, given enough attention span. Heavier overloads produce unexpecteder values, up until no values at all. Low resolution optics contribute to the same effect.
6. Unexpected interpretation of signals in perception, caused by attention span overload, makes noise.
7. Reduction of noise makes focus.
8. If a perception has several active agents, and its attention span gets overloaded, some (but not necessarily all) of its agents will make noise while the rest will not.
9. Focusing of attention requires its reassembly, or change to its attention span limit, or both.
10. Essentially, attention comprises of a set of concurrently active agents. Changing optics of those agents, or replacing agents of attention (or both) makes it reassemble.
11. Thus, to perform interpretations of mediums of interest within the same attention span and with the least possible noise requires to reassemble attention in such a way that will decrease the amount of interpretations undertaken for the rest of observable mediums, and increase the resolution of optics of active agents.
12. Changing attention span limit of a perception requires changing the platform on which that perception is run.