Indeed, there is some more detail around attention (foreground) vs. awareness (background), but the claim really is that in your foreground attention there can

Indeed, there is some more detail around attention (foreground) vs. awareness (background), but the claim really is that in your foreground attention there can only be one object at a time. In your example the three sense modalities would occur sequentially in consciousness, and the rapidity would make you think they were simultaneous. But I think what you’re also getting at is that “object of attention” can be a surprisal signal from different layers, which I think must be true, and I do agree is something that needs to be accounted for. I didn’t go deep enough to speak to what Dharma theory would say about this.