Dr. Stephen Hicks

Now, where I think it immediately gets more complicated, and you psychologists know more about this than I do, is even if we stay with those examples, the question about what happens automatically and what is under our volitional control is another dimension that has to cut across.

Now, where I think it immediately gets more complicated, and you psychologists know more about this than I do, is even if we stay with those examples, the question about what happens automatically and what is under our volitional control is another dimension that has to cut across.

Now, where I think it immediately gets more complicated, and you psychologists know more about this than I do, is even if we stay with those examples, the question about what happens automatically and what is under our volitional control is another dimension that has to cut across.

Even if we grant that in both cases, whether I'm focused or whether I'm diffused attention, I'm aware of reality in some Yeah, yeah, yeah. It makes sense. It is true that if in either of those cases, if I'm the artist focusing on the particular dot and my child suddenly screams, then I will involuntarily or automatically lose that focus and go to attend.

Even if we grant that in both cases, whether I'm focused or whether I'm diffused attention, I'm aware of reality in some Yeah, yeah, yeah. It makes sense. It is true that if in either of those cases, if I'm the artist focusing on the particular dot and my child suddenly screams, then I will involuntarily or automatically lose that focus and go to attend.

Even if we grant that in both cases, whether I'm focused or whether I'm diffused attention, I'm aware of reality in some Yeah, yeah, yeah. It makes sense. It is true that if in either of those cases, if I'm the artist focusing on the particular dot and my child suddenly screams, then I will involuntarily or automatically lose that focus and go to attend.

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But then even another interesting case would be you're the artist and you know that sometimes your kid cries out and screams, but you've given yourself a signal. I'm angry at my kid right now. He's been a brat. I'm going to ignore him when he screams. So I'm focusing, exact same scenario, kid screams, I register it, but my reaction is quite different. I stay focused.

But then even another interesting case would be you're the artist and you know that sometimes your kid cries out and screams, but you've given yourself a signal. I'm angry at my kid right now. He's been a brat. I'm going to ignore him when he screams. So I'm focusing, exact same scenario, kid screams, I register it, but my reaction is quite different. I stay focused.

But then even another interesting case would be you're the artist and you know that sometimes your kid cries out and screams, but you've given yourself a signal. I'm angry at my kid right now. He's been a brat. I'm going to ignore him when he screams. So I'm focusing, exact same scenario, kid screams, I register it, but my reaction is quite different. I stay focused.

That's right. That's going to be a back-feed loop.

That's right. That's going to be a back-feed loop.

That's right. That's going to be a back-feed loop.

Yeah. To come back to like your pen example and the issue of as sophisticated cognizers, when we are perceiving the world, that we have their use function kind of built into the... The perception. Yeah. I'm going to put that in quotation marks right now.

Yeah. To come back to like your pen example and the issue of as sophisticated cognizers, when we are perceiving the world, that we have their use function kind of built into the... The perception. Yeah. I'm going to put that in quotation marks right now.

Yeah. To come back to like your pen example and the issue of as sophisticated cognizers, when we are perceiving the world, that we have their use function kind of built into the... The perception. Yeah. I'm going to put that in quotation marks right now.

And then the action that's going to be embodied in that use also in many cases seems to be built into the perception. I think if we unpack that more, there's still going to be a very sophisticated set of learning we have to do about what is built into the physiological system and the psychological system at birth and how much of it is learned. Definitely.

And then the action that's going to be embodied in that use also in many cases seems to be built into the perception. I think if we unpack that more, there's still going to be a very sophisticated set of learning we have to do about what is built into the physiological system and the psychological system at birth and how much of it is learned. Definitely.