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85 - Wayne Wu: Attention, from a philosophical point of view

Stanford Psychology Podcast

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Is There a Control Automaticity in Psychology?

Mentality, that's definitely a big question. And I want to go back to this schematic figure for one last time, because I think there was a really interesting decision distinction that you were proposing in the first part of your talk. The idea that it's passive, I think we should pay attention to that because it is independent of the kinds are explicit goals and are explicit tasks. But yes, I think that's the most interesting part of attention where it really bubbles up as mattering to us. Because like, Oh my God, I wasted all that time on Facebook or some of the examples that they give there, even to a conference,. Right?

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