soft3/cybergraph/specs/attention.md

attention (read)

a read-emergent: it appears when you read the structure. query(from, to) returns how much focus a neuron projects onto a target.

query(from: ν, to: p)  →  attention(ν → p)        one neuron's weight on one target
query(from: ν)         →  attention distribution across all targets
query(to: p)           →  all neurons attending to p (weighted backlink set)

cybergraph exposes the read and names the two write paths that produce it — will (broad) and per-link conviction (the box in amount). the complete definition of the quantity — the focus projection and how individual attention aggregates into collective $\phi^*$ — is the tru's. see attention for the full specification.

see axon for the other emergent · query for the read interface.

Homonyms

attention
the measurable projection of a neuron onto a target particle or axon, produced by staking. see cybergraph/reference/attention.
cybergraph/reference/attention
soft3/tru/specs/attention
attention the focus a single neuron projects onto a target particle or axon. where collective $\phi^*$ is the whole graph's attention distribution, a neuron's attention is its individual contribution to that distribution — how much of its weight lands on each target. attention is a derived focus…
soft3/tru/docs/terms/attention
attention the focus a single neuron projects onto a target particle or axon. where collective focus (φ\*) is the whole graph's attention distribution, attention is one neuron's *contribution* to it — how much of that neuron's weight lands on each target. attention is the input; φ\* is the…

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