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Attention is so important that it actually is responsible for The of the bilateral brain is that we have two hemispheres because to stay alive and to function

we need to be able to host two radically incompatible forms of awareness at the exact same time

that cannot be done consciously.

So one form of attention dominates our conscious awareness,

and the other form of attention generally happens

in the background unconsciously.

So what are those two forms of attention?

In all mammals, we need to survive to have an ability to focus on acquiring or manipulating a very specific object to get food, to get a tool, to get something to create shelter.

To use an example, something to create shelter.

use an example, a bird, this is a famous example used by the neuropsychologist E.

McGilchrist, a bird that searching for seeds has to have very focused attention, looking for the

right seed to eat or the right twig to build a nest. So it's conscious of the single object. So one form of consciousness

takes the entire field of awareness of all the objects in front of us and fixates it or focus it like a narrow

spotlight in a theater on a single object.

So right now your left hemisphere is probably spotlighting me. On the

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