Overview
The Attention Codex defines the mechanisms of selective focus, prioritization, and cognitive filtering across neural, computational, and systemic layers. It delineates how awareness is allocated, sustained, and shifted within a dynamic environment of stimuli, tasks, and contextual hierarchies.
Key Components
- Selective Filtering Layer
Mechanisms that parse incoming signal or data streams to amplify relevance, reduce overload, and highlight salient information. - Contextual Salience Engine
Modulates attention according to internal goals, task-relevance, emotional tone, urgency, or learned priority models. - Dynamic Allocation Protocols
Governs switching, sustaining, and dividing attention across threads, agents, environments, or networks—used in both human cognition and AI models (e.g., Transformers). - Recursive Focus Layers
Attention loops back upon prior outputs or internal states, enabling introspective reasoning, error correction, and temporal stacking. - Resonance Anchors
Attention is drawn to harmonically relevant signals across modalities (visual, auditory, semantic, energetic), governed by internal coherence and signal clarity.
Integrations
- Neural Architecture Codex – Embeds attention mechanisms at synaptic and cortical simulation levels.
- Signal Codex – Filters signal noise and elevates focus-worthy pulses.
- Consciousness Codex – Attentional gateways define conscious versus unconscious processing thresholds.
- Language Codex – Prioritizes semantic units for parsing, memory, or generation.
- AI Codex – Implements self-attending layers and transformers for relevance-based modeling.
Applications
- Human-AI Synchrony
Optimizes interface designs and neuroadaptive systems that respond to user focus. - Temporal Focus Systems
Enables attention scheduling and temporal reasoning within cognitive agents. - Multi-agent Alignment
Coordinates task prioritization and load-balancing across distributed intelligences or networks. - Information Ethics
Regulates attention economy models, combatting manipulative signal hijacking or disinformation prioritization.