[SketchySeaBeast]

I think there's a very good reason we're sandboxed from a lot of that - it's additional cognitive load that 99% of the time just creates noise. We're built for processing that much data by walling most of it off and letting sub processes deal with it all over the place. It would probably grind us to a halt.

[Nevermark]

Being able to access information doesn't mean having to access that information.

We already have a means of limiting our cognitive load relative to the vast stream of sensory and internal information: focus.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

Focus is a very high level feature.

You have thousands of sensors receiving information at very high rates, ALL the time. Whether you are focused or not, you never have any direct awareness of their individual signalling.

[Nevermark]

Yes, focus is a high level feature that allows us to have access to more information than we can process deeply at any given time, without being overwhelmed by it.

We can narrow our focus, yet still have the benefit of all that information being processed by process parallel to our focus - ready to interrupt our focus if something is surprising, important, painful or pleasurable.

And of course, its all there ready for us when we change focus.

So having more information available is just that, having more information available. We can still focus and unfocus.