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Great topic. Maybe a bit foggy due to our limited vocabulary for these things. Funnily enough, AI nerds have rebuilt this lexicon for us. It’s ᴀᴛᴛᴇɴᴛɪᴏɴ. “Wonder” is just how some of us see this elephant from a certain angle. Psychology talks enough about “lantern” (childlike) and “flashlight” attention, and it does seem to be rooted in early-cognitive, pre-human world, when consciousness was much more basic. Children exhibit fleeting wonder as they have way too much outside their minds, and very few models inside to compare stimuli with. As we learn and build internal models, we spend more time “indoors of consciousness” with blinds like you said. But we can and should make time to go out again, deliberately learning with outward stimuli hitting our senses.