You're writing in my lane: perception is in the relationship field; it's not a mirror. That "filter" is the constraint that keeps the system coherent. When the field widens, you get awareness; when it narrows, you get function.
I used to try to describe why I liked to work with students with ADHD using the same logic. They may have had trouble staying coherent and even functional, but their connections and awareness were fascinating!
Huxley treats the open valve as pure gain. Your version has a cost on both settings, and in my opinion that is the better description.
The ADHD point is what makes it concrete. Those students were not failing at the narrow setting, they were running a wide one, and the same width that produced the connections you found fascinating is what made the sequence hard.
Exactly. That valve is a coherence regulator. A wide field gives you access to more relational information, but it also makes it harder to maintain a stable sequence. A narrow field gives you a clean function, but at the cost of losing peripheral structure.
I'm glad you saw the ADHD classroom connection. The width that allowed those fascinating cross‑connections made linear tasks collapse. As you said, "same dial, two readings," and the system pays for whichever setting it’s running.
You're writing in my lane: perception is in the relationship field; it's not a mirror. That "filter" is the constraint that keeps the system coherent. When the field widens, you get awareness; when it narrows, you get function.
I used to try to describe why I liked to work with students with ADHD using the same logic. They may have had trouble staying coherent and even functional, but their connections and awareness were fascinating!
Huxley treats the open valve as pure gain. Your version has a cost on both settings, and in my opinion that is the better description.
The ADHD point is what makes it concrete. Those students were not failing at the narrow setting, they were running a wide one, and the same width that produced the connections you found fascinating is what made the sequence hard.
Same dial, two readings of it.
Exactly. That valve is a coherence regulator. A wide field gives you access to more relational information, but it also makes it harder to maintain a stable sequence. A narrow field gives you a clean function, but at the cost of losing peripheral structure.
I'm glad you saw the ADHD classroom connection. The width that allowed those fascinating cross‑connections made linear tasks collapse. As you said, "same dial, two readings," and the system pays for whichever setting it’s running.