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The Floodlight and the Juggler
Saind: Attention developed is a bigger problem that the brain to solve regarding allowing it to sample everything in its environment and within its own mind. One way we pay attention is through this floodlight metaphor, which is paying attention in a broad and receptive stance,. You know, i've got a flood light above my garage door. It's almost like a scalp's, if you will, cuto rod, watching, looking around. And the third system that you mention, we've got the flashlight, the floodlight. Now the jubbler is yet another aspect of the way we paid attention. So we can think of this is for the goal maintenance system of the mind.
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