Attention is magic, strong enough to delay the impact of an expanding information universe without disappearing the infinity.
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 the user, focused on chunking the data and navigating it as easily as possible, are experientially in 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.
