The information environment and the attentional environment are not the same thing. Things make a lot more sense one you start trying to decompose the two.
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Replying to @generativist
Do you think there's a conception of information that makes sense absent reference to an observer?
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No. Or, at least, I can't think of that being true in any useful way. But, the information environment is "too big, too complex, and too fleeting, for direct acquaintance," so we need attention to constrain our subjective space.
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And the really tricky part in analysis or perception of anything is that the overlapping regions of those constrained spaces tends to 0 as the number of recognizable contexts in the information environment grows.
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(Or, at least, that's kinda how my dissertation sets it up.)
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I think it's one of the few useful abstract-but-translatable critiques from my dissertation. Confidence in an expressed belief and the frequency with which it's tested via attention is, at best, weakly related. So, polling doesn't really measure probability of agreement.
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