What Is Attention?

There's been a really, I actually expanded my sense of what attention is to think about it in this more complex way. Dr James Williams has become one of the most important philosophers of attention in the world at the moment. He says there are three kinds of attention: our spotlight, our starlight and our daylight. If you're constantly distracted, if your head is jammed up and jammed up, you lose your ability to achieve longer term goals or they certainly become much harder. And as you see from the fact that, you know, what could be a more urgent threat to Australia than the climate crisis? It will just be an early harbinger of what's to come if we don't

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