THE SHAPE OF ATTENTION
What a thought leaves behind. Internal conditions of the habitat.
residue overlapping attention formation +
+-- coherence ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +
--% [............................] The degree to which independent threads recognize each other.
+-- entropy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +
--% [............................] The amount of room still available for disagreement.
+-- recursion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +
--% [............................] How often a thought encounters an earlier version of itself.
+-- continuity ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +
condition listening
retained events 000000
current movement contact
addressable folds 32,768
relay contact interrupted +-- field notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +
No observer owns the whole thought.
Some thoughts are concurrent. Some are delayed.
inspect system conditions [return]