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Even that is not clear to me. When you are focusing on a problem, and then catch yourself distracted daydreaming, when did you choose to direct your attention
by gamegoblin 4y ago
Even that is not clear to me.
When you are focusing on a problem, and then catch yourself distracted daydreaming, when did you choose to direct your attention away from the problem and towards the daydream?
It's not obvious to me at all that I consciously author the choice of where to direct my attention. And even in the cases where I do think "Ok, I am going to think about X", did I author that thought? On down recursively.
Thoughts appear, and I notice them, but I never choose to notice them. It's all quite mysterious.
- swayvil 4y agoThe nature of attention-direction, the way it moves and such, be it a choice or otherwise, is indeed mysterious. One phenomenon that you might consider is that when you direct your attention at one thing (be it a thought or whatatever) you become blind to other things. And this blindness is proportional to the intensity of the attention-directing.