That does sound like an interesting and tough problem, how an intelligent agent can know what is relevant to the listener, and what to filter out. I imagine it

That does sound like an interesting and tough problem, how an intelligent agent can know what is relevant to the listener, and what to filter out. I imagine it would work similarly to how human brains do, or at least how we think they do. To notice the "big picture" first, recognize large shapes then smaller details, or faster moving things then static things. > remove the very filters that keep us sane Haha, yes, I know what you mean. If our brains paid attention to everything coming in through the doors of perception, our mind would be flooded with information, way too much for practical purposes. Occasionally it is helpful to access such a mode of experience, but the filters are necessary for daily life in society. We can't be going around in rapturous ecstasy of gnosis all the time. A related problem might be too much filtering, or the wrong criteria for the filters, missing what's important. I imagine this could be solved by a conversational interface, where the listener talks with the ambient narrator to zoom in/out and focus on details as desired.