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The Wonder of Attention

The human mind really can only pay attention to one thing at a time. Pickpockets use this by diverting our attention and then exploiting that because our attention is not focused where it could be if they were to apprehend the pickpocketer. That's called inattentional numbness. There's even inattENTIONal a nose me. Did you know that word, Mike? And so it's just part of the wonder of attention that is part of the larger wonder of our whole sensory perceptual system.

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