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The Matter With Things Part 2 with Iain McGilchrist

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What Is Attention?

In part 1 of the book, you address the means to truth in the sense of the faculties with which we are endowed for this task. In due course I saw it as astonishingly rich and important. One way of thinking about attention is the way in which we dispose our consciousness towards the world. What we find depends partly on what we think we might find. But that's why I took the trouble to go through all those other faculties that we bring to bear when we have an encounter with reality.

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