Ways of Attending by Iain McGilchrist

Author:Iain McGilchrist
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

How our divided brain constructs the world

Let’s return to attention. As has been noted, attention is the basis of our experience of the world. It is not a “function” alongside other functions, but the foundation for having a world at all in which those “functions” can be exercised. And although it is true that what it is we are attending to determines the type of attention we pay to it, it is also importantly true that the type of attention we pay determines what it is we see. The way reality comes into being for us is like that famous picture by M C Escher of hands that draw hands:

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