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Interlude LIV: Attention as Reality Selection - Salience Networks, Attentional Gating, and the Construction of Experience
What if reality isn't something you perceive, but something you select?
In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores the neuroscience of attention and its role in shaping conscious experience. Drawing on foundational work by cognitive neuroscientist Michael Posner and contemporary research by Amishi Jha, this episode examines how attention functions as a filtering system that determines what enters awareness and what remains excluded.
Rather than acting as a passive spotlight, attention operates through complex networks that prioritize relevance over accuracy. The…
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