How Does Your Attention Work?

People talk about attention as moving in and out with their awareness. You can look through a lot of processing deeply out into the world, or you can step back and withdraw toward the centre of your mind. There's another important axis upon which your attention is working, and i can bring it out by a famous example. So let's use language we've already developed. The letters are the features, and the word is the overall structure. Here's what your attention is actually doing. It's simultaneously going up from the features to the gustalt, the idos, the structural, functional whole. And it's going down from the gustalt the words to the individual letters, the features.