26.03.2024 Attention

Life/existence is a matter of attention. But attention is not mere consciousness. And it especially cannot be reduced and traced back to any image of the “brain”. Attention is a turning to and from, and an active noticing and changing of reality made up of and mediated by the environment and the body as a part of it. Hands make attention, eyes make attention, water makes attention, books make attention, pain makes attention, rocks make attention, consciousness makes attention, infrastructure makes attention, … . The lines between what are subjects and objects of attention are blurred and consistently impermanent. …