Not at all, and agree 100% on the attention economy not replacing money per se. It is a useful shorthand, however, for how we apportion attention, as you noted.
For some reason, I connected these ideas of apportioning attention with Giordano Bruno's essays on magic. I'm not sure why this resonated with me, but often he seems to be discussing works that are not dissimilar on some level to advertising, which is itself a method of capturing and directing the attention.
I agree once again on the notion of change being at the root of things. My sense of information was that it requires, at minimum, an audience (needs to be communicated), and effect a change. What that change is likely depends on the substrate in which it is transacted. In terms of energy, the information ex-change could be, at the smallest observable level, quantum. In terms of natural selection, this would be genetic information producing changes that are then further communicated along "the chain."
There is something elegant, to me, about this idea of change (via information) manifesting itself through the various levels of the natural world, in physical, biological, and other systems (media, that is things that bridge minds), as if it is a deep feature of the (physical, at least) universe.
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For some reason, I connected these ideas of apportioning attention with Giordano Bruno's essays on magic. I'm not sure why this resonated with me, but often he seems to be discussing works that are not dissimilar on some level to advertising, which is itself a method of capturing and directing the attention.
I agree once again on the notion of change being at the root of things. My sense of information was that it requires, at minimum, an audience (needs to be communicated), and effect a change. What that change is likely depends on the substrate in which it is transacted. In terms of energy, the information ex-change could be, at the smallest observable level, quantum. In terms of natural selection, this would be genetic information producing changes that are then further communicated along "the chain."
There is something elegant, to me, about this idea of change (via information) manifesting itself through the various levels of the natural world, in physical, biological, and other systems (media, that is things that bridge minds), as if it is a deep feature of the (physical, at least) universe.
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