ATTENTION
<p>Jul 16, 2011 12:54 PM
see summary of RAPT by Winifred Gallagher and her excellent talk online...  LA Puclib Library video on FORA...
outstanding...  just watch the first half hour.
 
bottomline:  (her words)  As suggested by the expression <b>"PAY ATTENTION"  this cognitive CURRENCY is a finite resource that we must learn to SPEND WISELY</b>.
 
 
Jul 15, 2011 12:50 PMFeb 25, 2009 11:53 PM
 
 
<b>William James  1890  Prin of Psych</b>
<i>Everyone knows what attention is. It is the<b> taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration, of consciousness are of its essence</b>. It implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others</i>
 
from <b>Wm James 1890  Prin of Psych</b>
 
<b>Millions of items ... are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience.</b>
<b>Why?  Because they have no interest for me.  My experience is what I agree to attend to ...</b>
<b>Each of us literally chooses, by his ways of attending to things, what sort of universe</b>
<b>he shall appear to himself to inhabit.</b>  ...</p>