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The Invisible Triad

Laws Of Perception

Written by Råmen Shamal Bet パイナップル on December 05, 2019
  1. Difference may be detected.
  2. Detection of a difference makes a signal.
  3. Signals are interpreted. Interpretation measures a signal on a scale. A scale may be a spectrum with at least one boundary, or an axis with an origin, or a dictionary.
  4. Interpreting a signal makes a value. A permutation of values also makes a value.
  5. Value makes an intention, or increases strength of an intention.
  6. Intentions have strengths. Strengths of intentions decay over time unless increased by values. Once an intention is weaker than an arbitrary threshold, it disappears.
  7. Intention stronger than an arbitrary threshold makes an action.
  8. Action makes a difference.
  9. Scales for interpretation may be chosen arbitrarily.
  10. Scales of the same kind but with different boundaries, or origin, or values, are different scales.
  11. Set of scales makes an optic.
  12. Variety and breadth of an optic make its resolution. That is to say, optics with less variety and breadth have lower resolution; optics with more variety and breadth have higher resolution.
  13. If no scale from an optic measures a signal (regardless of why), then interpreting the signal through the optic yields no value.
  14. Detector always detects difference, but only within its medium, scope and capacity (regardless of how they are defined). A detector has one and only one medium.
  15. Agent may interpret signals from its detectors through optics, accumulate intentions and act upon them. An agent has at least one detector. Agents may have any amount of optics. Agents may act in the mediums of their detectors.
  16. Set of agents makes a perception, as long as the mediums of some (but not necessarily all) of detectors are shared between some (but not necessarily all) of agents in the set.
  17. One agent, too, makes a perception (albeit an isolated one).
  18. Thus, a set of perceptions may make a perception.
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Principles of Attention

Written by Råmen Shamal Bet パイナップル on September 16, 2020
  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 reassembling 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.

Organization of Memory

Råmen Shamal Bet パイナップル on September 11, 2025
  1. Interpretations of signals in a perception make accounts.
  2. Accounts may differ in detail and precision.
  3. Noise and unexpected values may distort accounts, sometimes unrecognizably, allowing to account for not what was perceived and interpreted.
  4. Accounts may be stored.
  5. Account storage management is a subroutine of attention.
  6. An account may be stored if the load on attention and the width of attention span allow enough resources to be allocated to the storage procedure.
  7. Accounts are compressed when they are stored, with their contrast increased (higher level and brighter details are amplified, lower level details are discarded). The level of compression also depends on the load on attention and the width of attention span at the time of compression and recording.
  8. An account that is stored and compressed makes an impression.
  9. Impressions may become connected when stored, forming graphs.
  10. New impressions may overwrite parts of old impression graphs randomly. Smaller graphs have bigger chances to be overwritten wholly or in part.
  11. Perception may be directed to an impression.
  12. An impression, when perceived, may pull its graph into perception wholly or in part. Parts of other impression graphs may be pulled into perception randomly.
  13. Navigating an impression graph makes a simulation.
  14. Perceiving the simulation makes a memory.
  15. Total storage capacity for impression graphs is arbitrarily finite.