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“brutes abstract not, yet are not bare machines”

13-Feb-25

Continuing to think out loud. I’m still at the stage of clarifying (for me) precisely what is a state of attention. It seems to be a relatively modern, pragmatic concept which overlaps with ideas about mindfulness (often within a meditative religious framework), epistemology and cognitive functions – which all involve mental focus in controlling and […]

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“to buffer it from the overrich environment in which it swims”

09-Feb-25

The current debate about the effects of digital technology – and social media in particular – often centres on the detrimental effects it has on our attention, both in terms of our ability to concentrate on tasks in a sustained way and in terms of the way in which our attention is grabbed by sensationalism […]

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