This reminded me of compressed sensing, in which you sample a much smaller portion of whatever you want to sense, and then reconstruct the entire signal with that limited data.

But it also reminded me of the crucial aspect of attention. Attention is a form of compression of the current reality, and is critical for sensing the world.

Because you cannot process everything that is happening you need to pay attention to specific things, you choose what you pay attention to, and ignore everything else.

This attention then leads to thoughts in your brain, and those thoughts lead to ideas, then to plans, and finally to actions.

This means that your life quite literally becomes what you pay attention to.

Big tech and the advertising industry know this very well, so they try to get your attention no matter what. Once they get your attention they eventually get your life.

Attention is a crucial thing but many people give it away for free.

Control your attention, control your life.