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

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    • 1.Modern environments generate genuine information surplus; attention gates access to exponentially more data than historical scarcity scenarios.
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    • 2.Selective filtering AND active synthesis of integrated meaning both require attention; governance implies constructive, not merely reductive, function.
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    • 3.Attentional engagement with complex tasks shows enhancement, not just filtering; attention amplifies processing depth, suggesting non-scarcity dynamics.
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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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