What happens when engagement is understood as interaction rather than accumulation?
A single disturbance spreads across a surface before returning and colliding with itself. As the waves overlap, new patterns begin to appear. Individual interactions may be small, but together they create effects far greater than the original signal.
The exploration treated attention like a disturbance on a calm surface. A single point of activity generated ripples that travelled outward across a fixed boundary. As those waves returned, they began to overlap and interfere with one another, producing new patterns of motion across the surface.
Individual signals rarely exist in isolation. As interactions compound, they reinforce and disrupt each other, creating effects that are larger and more complex than the original impulse.
Engagement is often measured as isolated actions. In reality it behaves more like a system, where each interaction influences the ones that follow.
