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Interlude LXXXVIII: Attention | William James, Michael Posner, Selective Attention, Perception, Focus, and Decision-Making
What decides what you notice before you decide what to do?
Why can two people experience the same conversation, walk away with completely different memories, and both feel certain they saw what mattered?
Why does one critical sentence eclipse ten compliments?
Why can one worried thought dominate an otherwise ordinary morning?
And how much of what we call choice has already been shaped by what attention allowed into consideration?
In Interlude LXXXVIII of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey continues the arc Agency and the Human Will by moving one step upstream from decision-making…
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