Axiomtheoreticalv1
Experience must be attended to before it can become
Experience must be attended to before it can become meaningful.
Why This Is an Axiom
This is a foundational theoretical claim about the sequential relationship between attention and meaning-making. It establishes attention as a necessary precondition (gateway) for any meaning construction process. The claim is irreducible—it defines the architecture of how raw experience enters the meaning-making system. It cannot be derived from other axioms; rather, other principles about meaning construction depend on this sequential relationship.