Attention, Psychology

Iain McGilchrist on attention

McGilchrist considers the way our attention constructs our reality and becomes the beating heart with which we love the world: The whole illuminates the parts as much as the parts can illuminate the whole… The world we experience — which is the only one we can know — is affected by the kind of attention we pay to it. Defining attention as “the manner in which our consciousness is disposed towards whatever else exists,” he…