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Why we can't pay attention anymore
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Is Your Attention Degraded?
Is it possible that how we use our attention has simply evolved from long sustained periods of concentration to a kind of super power ability to pay attention? Or is that belief that we can juggle different things at the same time just a self deception? Gen, i'm reaching here for a counterpoint, because wh saying seems to me fundamentally correct. We have a very strong body of scientific evidence on this, and the findings are very clear. The human brain has not changed significantly in forty thousand years. It ain't going to change on any time scale. This is just a limitation of the human brain.
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