Individual attention-slice status updates, using social media now accessible via mobile-communications across the globe, can help provide data for information-theory based models of evolving complexity with deep roots in the mathematical, physical, and biological sciences. In particular, status-update tools for reporting the fraction of one's attention spent taking care of matters that look inward and outward from skin, family, and culture can provide powerful, and eventually objective,...

It is difficult to define perspective within sets that are self belonging. For example in the study of mankind, anthropology, both men and their studies fall into the same category that contains the topic outline. This situation entails a universal quality of uniqueness, an instance of, to the topic of anthropology that almost may be viewed in parallel to the topic of nature as the set of unique particulars. Yet one might assent to the notion in the inclusive study of man, anthropology,...

Apparency and actuality are discussed with respect to science, genetics, evolution, cognition and perception. Rules for a (sub)set of actual/allowable sets of entities and objects from a total set that is based on differences and contrasts extracted from perceptual experience of the world elucidate tenable combinations/recombinations from a total of the transparent(history/past dependant) and the apparent as they can be construed to comprise the actual/real faces of perception. The elements...