The way I model attention is that it is (metaphorically) a Cirrus (biology) of thought that you extend into the world and then retract into your mind. If you leave it out for too long, it gets tangled up in the forest of all knowledge, if you keep it inside for too long, then you become unable to respond to your environment.
People who are extremely online tend to send their attention cirrus into the internet, where it is prone to become a host to memes that use addiction to bypass your mind’s typical defenses against infection.
Anything that you really enjoy to the point of losing self-control comes under the category of being a disease: whether that’s social media, programming, fiction, gaming, tentacle pornography, research, or anime.
The way I model attention is that it is (metaphorically) a Cirrus (biology) of thought that you extend into the world and then retract into your mind. If you leave it out for too long, it gets tangled up in the forest of all knowledge, if you keep it inside for too long, then you become unable to respond to your environment.
People who are extremely online tend to send their attention cirrus into the internet, where it is prone to become a host to memes that use addiction to bypass your mind’s typical defenses against infection.
Anything that you really enjoy to the point of losing self-control comes under the category of being a disease: whether that’s social media, programming, fiction, gaming, tentacle pornography, research, or anime.