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#226 - The Price of Distraction

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Asymmetry of Attention

There's a clear asymmetry in terms of the bandwidth in those pathways. So I recommend that people pull over to the side of the road if they're in danger of missing subsequent sentences here. You got to have your priorities straight. It used two phrases there that are terms of jargon in not just neuroscience, but cognitive science and engineering generally bottom up and top down. How do you think about those?

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