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Competing for attention
Brain Science: Neuroscience, Behavior
Is Your Attention Keeping You Alive?
I can't talk about attention without talking about emotion because emotion is going to create hiccups in and around what I can pay attention to. So it comes to that brain stem, which our brains fundamentally, the foundation of what our brains are always trying to do is keep us alive. And so think about it's this competing system. If I'm taking in system information, bottom up, my senses tell me one thing, think VR. Yeah. And then my higher cognitive functions tell me another thing, like that's not real, even though your brain is telling you it's real,. Like now how do I respond? And which thing do I put greater attention on? That's a
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