Mind · Strategy
Wonderdwell
Stay with something familiar, with its expectation frozen, until it yields a surprise or the time runs out
Definition
Mechanism
Before dwelling on something familiar, what is expected of it is frozen as a CounterfactualAnchor. Attention then stays with the familiar thing for a stated time, and each observation that departs from the frozen expectation is recorded as a surprise. A dwell that ends without one is recorded as such.
Invariants
- The expectation is frozen before the dwelling begins.
- Each recorded surprise names the frozen expectation it departs from.
- The dwell has a stated time limit.
Risks
Failure modes
Novelty hunting
attention moves on before the familiar has had time to surprise.
Manufactured wonder
ordinary observations are recorded as surprises.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Society
Freezing expectation to measure true surprise
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference