December 12, 2020
Principles of Attention
These words were condensed in September 2020 in Ukraine.
- Mutable assembly of preferences and limits on what is observed by perception makes an attention.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Unexpected interpretation of signals in perception, caused by attention span overload, makes noise.
- Reduction of noise makes focus.
- 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.
- Focusing of attention requires its reassembly, or change to its attention span limit, or both.
- 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.
- 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.
- Changing attention span limit of a perception requires changing the platform on which that perception is run.