[Fis] Concluding the session

[Pedro C. Marijuán]

Dear List,

It looks it is time to conclude the session. The presenters may be 
willing to send some final comments, otherwise I am adding here an 
interesting observation (via Malcolm Dean) that matches some of our 
previous exchanges.

Regards,

--Pedro

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cosmosinstitute.substack.com/p/rebooting-the-attention-machine__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!XQpwMxNiwJEp8TUj9Lo81XGuUsDaHxTsnDJKcz-I3HF2P4VLTAXLDCvwt8aPTBJ9vpgcbgin0K7RsvqNG6IxK4o3E74P$ 
Cosmos Institute, 6 June 2025
*Rebooting the Attention Machine
*/Bush’s Tools, Mill’s Rules, and the Future of Free Speech
/
At 6 a.m., a cancer researcher finds 432 new papers in her inbox—more 
than Pasteur read in a lifetime. A songwriter opens TikTok: 700 hours of 
video went up since she brewed her coffee.

Every leap in communications—papyrus, printing presses, telegraphs, 
radios, the Web, generative AI—has widened the gap between what is 
produced and what any one mind can absorb.

That pattern is no passing fad; it is baked into the arithmetic of 
attention. The supply of ideas compounds, but the bandwidth of the human 
brain does not.

In this flood, what principles can keep us afloat? What engineering 
blueprints and philosophical concepts are needed to navigate the chaos, 
reclaim our inquiry, and remain self-directed? ...

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