"Attention Mechanism" Is Not Attention

Vaswani et al.'s 2017 paper was titled "Attention Is All You Need." The naming caused immense conceptual confusion. Transformer attention is mathematics: weighting tokens in the input sequence to determine output influence. It doesn't "want" to attend to anything. It distributes weights per parameters. Yogācāra's manaskāra is the mind's "active directedness" — with intentionality and orientation. One is passive computation; the other is active cognition. Same name, entirely different nature.