Attention as Distinction Admission in Finite Systems: Capacity-Limited Gating, Boundary Relevance, and Tunnel Vision

Official website: distinctiontheory.orgPublic portal for the start guide, papers, claim status, failure registry, prior-art boundary, and citation resources. Canonical GitHub repository:https://github.com/yiningwu-research/Distinction-Theory Attention as Distinction Admission in Finite Systems is the FDS-M1 working paper in the Distinction Theory / Active Finite Distinction Systems series. The paper develops the attention layer of the agency-semantics spine. Building on the formal core of Active Finite Distinction Systems and the M0 agency-semantics paper, it treats attention as the capacity-limited admission of candidate distinctions into an update-relevant channel. A distinction becomes attended when it is…