Quantum physics of the mind

Attention is magic, yet not strong enough to delay expanding impact

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Same lensed-network diagram, but with a second black lens and perspective-eye. One eye is labeled "now", one eye is labeled "2 minutes ago".

When the mind deals with a network, there’s a solid probability that it will chunk that network into more navigable pieces, predicated on the questions being asked. 

The questions can be about the same data, separated from a different data set by an unacknowledged connection. But to the user, focused on chunking the data and navigating it as easily as possible, they are experientially two different data sets.

The true change is attention. The shift in the data is to accommodate attention, the parent of a hierarchy is set by attention, the connection continues to be unrealized due to the tight scope of attention. 

The data, in its truest form, is still a broad and interconnected network. The selected ‘parents’ are arbitrary. The unacknowledged connections still exist, and changes to the structures under the focus of attention will still impact them.

My long-term synthesis and understanding. It is heavily influenced by watching people involved in multiple facets of a project compartmentalize, as well as social media and attention economy.

perspective attention:
connections, hierarchy, memory