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Defaults of Attention

Defaults of Attention

Not all attention is intentional. What then?

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Sep 20, 2024
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There’s a difference between seeing and looking, between hearing and listening, says Andrew Noble. But these different forms of attention have been collapsed together in recent thinking, he argues. Not all attention is active or under our conscious control.

We also need to think about passive attention, and how our “default” settings are set up.

While t…

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