internalised-exemplars-reshape-salience

# Internalised exemplars reshape salience Antisthenes: "I learned how to dialogue with myself as if with Socrates." An exemplar taken in ceases to be an external authority and becomes an inner structure of attention; athletes do the same with coaches, simulating "what would my coach notice about my movement right now". Engaging Socrates, the Buddha or Christ this way means enacting their patterns of attention, care and agency until they guide perception from within. Discipleship is salience engineering. Related: [[understanding-follows-transformation]], [[images-of-god-track-stages-of-development]], [[spiritual-disciplines-are-practices-of-remembrance]]