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Attention as eye

273 · Essay · epistemology · the mechanism behind the read · 9pp · May 2026

Nine pages on how the lens actually works — tokenization, attention as weighted lookup, positional encoding as the only sense of time, the KV cache as working memory of a single pass — and the four things the architecture cannot do (true causality, true belief, true cross-session memory, true certainty about its own reasoning) that the studio’s discipline of cast, compare-notes, live walk, and conversation are built to substitute for. Companion to 272.

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