232. Amishi Jha on Learning How to Pay Attention to Your Attention
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Gorilla Passes While the Guorilla Walks
i think it's sort of two sides of the same coin, right? Oreh, your attention is allowing you to see exactly the number passes, so you're inattentive to this whole other domain of the black shirted. They're gong tomiss everything outside of that. It shows us not a failure, not a gacia, but the power of this incredible capacity to blank out something like a gorilla. But it also tells us our vulnerability, which is that we might miss stuff. We can't probably have both just equally active at once.
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