attends to

CURIE: gmeow:attendsTo
IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/attendsTo
Category: property
Defined by: gmeow:slices/cognition
Box roles: RBox role (What is this?)

Directed attention or salience of an agent toward a subject — what the agent is currently focused on. NOT a goal: an attentional pull, not a teleology:Desire — the axes stay orthogonal and are never bridged by axiom (Principle 9). Whose attention it is rides gmeow:accordingTo on the statement (self-attributed vs observer-attributed coexist).

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Agent -> gmeow:Entity

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:attendsTo from gmeow:Agent to gmeow:Entity when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Attention Interest Memory

Source: slices/core/cognition/examples/attention-interest-memory.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-cognition-examples-attention-interest-memory

ex:nova a gmeow:Person ;
    gmeow:name        "Nova"@en ;
    gmeow:attendsTo    wd:Q11660 ;    # artificial intelligence — currently in focus
    gmeow:interestedIn wd:Q395 ;      # mathematics — sustained interest
    gmeow:curiousAbout wd:Q217413 ;   # category theory (curiousAbout ⊑ interestedIn)
    gmeow:remembers    wd:Q192995 .   # quantum computing — a subject she remembers (remembers ⊑ isAwareOf)

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Agent, gmeow:Entity

Usage Advice

Use when

Use to record what an agent is currently focused on — directed attention or salience toward a subject, the recall/salience surface the agent-memory flagship reads (Principle 15).

Avoid when

Avoid using it for a wanted goal or intention (that is the teleology slice — attention is an attentional pull, not a conative mode, and the axes are never bridged by axiom, Principle 9) and avoid it for sustained motivational orientation (use gmeow:interestedIn).

How to use

Assert gmeow:attendsTo from agent to subject; carry whose-attention and when on the statement layer via gmeow:accordingTo (self- vs observer-attributed coexist), and keep it distinct from teleology goals by review, not axiom.

Scope notes

Boundary: attention/interest (cognition) ⊥ intention (teleology). attendsTo / interestedIn / curiousAbout are attentional-affective pulls toward a subject; a teleology:Desire/Intention is a goal-directed conative mode aimed at a state of affairs. No owl:subPropertyOf or owl:disjointWith ties them — the separation is conceptual, enforced by review (Principle 9).

Examples

ex:lillith gmeow:attendsTo ex:currentTask.