By any of a variety of possible causes, my attention is brought to bear on my current action, and I notice that I am looking in front of me and seeing a purple box.
What sort of a thing am “I” that the expression “my attention” refers to anything? What am I, that I can possess an attention? Do I have it in the way I have hands, or in the way I have the recollection that 17 × 2 = 34? Can I sometimes have two attentions, or zero, or half of one?
I would love to be able to comment on the degree of meaningfullness, truth, well-informedness, originality and clarity
of you comment, but I find myself suddenly confused by what sort of things meaningfullness, truth, well-informdness, originality and clarity actually are. Do you have one or zero of them...?
What sort of a thing am “I” that the expression “my attention” refers to anything? What am I, that I can possess an attention? Do I have it in the way I have hands, or in the way I have the recollection that 17 × 2 = 34? Can I sometimes have two attentions, or zero, or half of one?
I’m a brain in a body. My attention is a cognitive process for allocating scarce processing resources.
I would love to be able to comment on the degree of meaningfullness, truth, well-informedness, originality and clarity of you comment, but I find myself suddenly confused by what sort of things meaningfullness, truth, well-informdness, originality and clarity actually are. Do you have one or zero of them...?