The diagnostic premises of attention science are cultural artifacts, not natural facts.

Evidence

It is perhaps worth remembering how strange this diagnostic scenario would likely look to a Yanomami shaman. What, he might wonder, are those people testing? What possible relationship could it have to the WORLD? … That is culture. And history. And the science we have reflects both. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 158

Categorization

• XREF: The cross-cultural defamiliarizing move (Yanomami shaman) is the same technique Said and anthropologists use to expose the localness of Western categories; resonates with Achebe’s rendering of Igbo cosmology as fully coherent.