232. Amishi Jha on Learning How to Pay Attention to Your Attention
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is There a Modular View of Attention?
There's always going to be attention within the specificity of the smallest unit of the brain, a neuron. But we know that thinking that a singular region does complex functions is wrong. The capacity to narrow and direct attention may be agnostic with respect to its use. And i think t these are different ways of attention operating. It makes sense that we would have more deliberative processes and automatic processes. In our modern world it can become actually quite problematic though, because now i want to sit there and put my flashlight on the email i want to write, but my text, my text messages keep coming in. And so now the flashlight, whichas there's only one of cannot be devoted toward
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