85 - Wayne Wu: Attention, from a philosophical point of view
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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Are We Doomed?
Cognitive science has a really important role to play in dealing with what is sometimes called the attention economy. I don't want this to be too much quibbling, but behind the idea of the attention economy is something like a commodification of attention. The good way of engaging with Twitter is maybe to go in with a set of questions and interests that are part of what you value in life,. And to engage with it actively, but even if we engage with it kind of in this very automatic way, you're extracting what you want.
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