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Challenges→The function of attention is the management of capacity excess, not the management of capacity limitations.

Therefore, the empirical signature of attention is scarcity management, not the governance of surplus processing.

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1.Attention evolved in resource-constrained environments where filtering threats and opportunities was survival-critical, not processing abundance.
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2.Brain metabolic costs are finite; attention mechanisms demonstrate selective allocation rather than parallel processing of all available information.
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3.Attentional blindness and capacity limits are empirically robust; we ignore most stimuli, suggesting scarcity management is the primary function.
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