Activity Layers & Your Attention

This page is about one of our concept modernization projects. Caution: Some of these notes, and the youtube playlist here, are put together with help from NotebookLM, which sometimes sacrifices precision in the interest of accessibility.

Connection between coin flips and culture wars: Coin flips give a natural unit i.e. bits for measuring risk, surprisal, subsystem correlations, and even ordered energy; (b) such correlations are expanded by broken symmetries that build layered organization like organisms → geneplexes → memeplexes; and finally (c) new media like radio and internaet give rogue memeplexes a chance to thrive by attention-grabbing with help from organisms & families as hosts, while ignoring their and others' long term interest. Sadly, of course, most of us are participating in this problem without discussing how to deal with

The animations below illustrate one way to visualize: (a) the bloom and decline of complexity in metazoan communities on earth, (b) the shifting attention focus of one individual over time, and (c) the affect of a xenophobic broadcast by one individual in B on communities A & B.

bloom & decline

This animated hexagonal community dot-cloud shows the attention-slice distribution of 100 community members evolving toward increased, and then toward decreased, via 6 ternary projections of a 5-dimensional single-species model over time. The 6 vertices/layers look in/out from the boundaries of self, family & culture, moving counter-clockwise from the right.

evolving individual

Animated connections spider, as one way to visualize a single individual's activity layer-multiplicity over time.

attention "gobbling"

The effect of a rogue idea-pool lifeform (or "memeplex") grabbing political (f4) attention, at the expense other layers & of harmony between two cultures. This also illustrates how one can project a 5-dimensional simplex with 6 vertices down into two dimensions, to illustrate processes unfolding in time. This strategy is also being used in the "bloom & decline" animation.

Layers_of_Life_Beyond_the_Organism

References:

P. Fraundorf (2019) "Task layer multiplicity as a measure of community level health", Complexity 2019, 1082412, 8 pages, hal-01503096.
P. Fraundorf (2013) "Layer-multiplicity as an order-parameter for communities", arXiv:1306.5185 [physics.gen-ph].
P. Fraundorf (2008) "A simplex model for layered niche-networks", Complexity 13:6, 29-39 abstract e-print.
P. Fraundorf (2008) "The thermal roots of correlation-based complexity", Complexity 13:3, 16-26 abstract draft pdf.
P. Fraundorf (2003) "Heat capacity in bits", Amer. J. Phys. 71:11, 1142-1151 (link video abstract).

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