Version 1:
The thing about attention is that it changes what you’re attending to.
Version 2:
The thing about attention is that it transforms what you’re paying attention to.
Version 3:
The peculiar thing about attention is that it changes whatever you’re attending to.
Version 4:
What’s strange about attention is that it transforms the very thing you’re looking at.
Version 5:
The curious thing about attention: it alters what you’re attending to in the act of attending.
Version 6:
Attention has this quality — it changes what you’re looking at while you’re looking.
Version 7:
The strange property of attention is that it modifies its own object in the process of observing.
Version 8:
There’s something about attention that transforms whatever falls under its gaze.
Version 9:
Attention does this thing where it changes what you’re paying attention to, just by the fact that you’re paying attention to it.
Version 10:
The observer effect, but for consciousness: looking changes what you’re looking at.