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Alan Watts Lectures
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The Evolution of Man's Conscious Attention
The tendency is to regard all that which lies below the surface of human consciousness as being less evolved. This was also the time of Darwin's theories of evolution, he says. If therefore the human race is to flourish we must take charge of evolution, F2 spontaneous process, but we must be directed by human ingenuity. Although our brains are capable of dealing with a colossal number of variables at once, our conscious attention is not. Most people cannot consider more than three variables at the same time without using a pencil. And this shows that in many ways the scanning process of man's conscious attention is very inadequate for dealing with the multidimensional processes of the natural universe.
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