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System of Attention

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You are a system of attention, waiting for stimuli and dispatching action.

Your attention is a living, moving system, like your body. It must remain free to sense.

When overly contaminated by external dogmas or circumstances, it will necessarily result in disembodiment and creative surplus.

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