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Observer Attention Is All You Need · v0.4

Established the eleven-chapter representation-first architecture, typed Non-Performance and Performance value, and the observer feedback loop before the Value Log pilot existed.

Status

superseded

Published

2026-07-02

Superseded by

v0.5

What changed

• Rebuilt the paper around representation before measurement and located the observer in the person.
• Separated attention from the time boundary supplied by ~ValueCaptureProtocol.
• Defined Non-Performance wellbeing value and Performance commons-realized value as distinct typed routes.
• Grounded the four-protocol chain, eight identity nodes, six Wellbecoming nodes, and three SAOcommons lanes in Spec API 0.6.0.
• Added the baseline-W stock-and-flow model, contextual protocol mini-maps, and an eleven-chapter architecture.
• Demoted ~Cortisol Checker~ and Word Wallet Web from premises to downstream applications.

What remained unresolved

• The paper remained a research architecture: the Value Log pilot, calculator provenance, chronological replay, and consented Pilot W publication did not yet exist.
• Its formulas described typed value conceptually rather than documenting a running measurement instrument.