wiki/attractors/attention
Attention
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Attention
This page is an attractor gateway, not a canon declaration. It compresses current evidence in the Work Vault and points toward underlying research.
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Semantic Compression
In this vault, attention is the selection layer of reality: the force that determines what becomes salient, what gets compressed, what is cared for, what is distorted, and what is allowed to become real.
Why It Matters
Attention is how energy becomes meaning. It drives compression, curiosity, selection pressure, social reality, and shared ritual; it also creates the risk that what is repeatedly noticed becomes mistaken for what is true.
Core Motifs
- salience
- compression
- curiosity
- selection pressure
- care
- distortion
- shared reality
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Primary Research
- Attention
- Attention-Compression Framework
- Selection Pressure via Attention
- The Real Is a Ritual
- Free Will Is Expensive
Adjacent Research
Related Projects
Related Concepts
Related Invariants
- P4 - Legibility and Interpretability
- P7 - Incentive Drift and Attractors
- C3 - Compression Distortion
Unresolved / Needs Link Resolution
- No unresolved seed links in this pass.
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Open Questions
- What makes attention consentful?
- When does attention become extraction?
- How does attention program shared reality?
Next Navigation
- Start with Attention for the concept synthesis.
- Continue to Attention-Compression Framework for the published model.
- Use Meaning when attention becomes language, interpretation, or shared reality.
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