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Have you ever scrolled through a social media feed on your smartphone without a particular purpose or goal? Were you trying to focus on something else, like listening to a talk, or did you have a...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2023/02/06/precis-of-extended-mind-wandering.aspx

Last December, The Washington Post resurfaced a short video clip of Heather Nauert, nominee for US Ambassador to the United Nations. In the video Nauert attempted to make the case that there was ...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2019/05/16/political-and-perceptual-differences.aspx

Today I will summarise the account of pain and pleasure provided in The Emotional Mind. This builds on the account of valent representation that I outlined yesterday. However, the first thing to ...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2019/02/13/3-pain-and-pleasure.aspx

Many parents who look into the eyes of their newborn baby encounter something wonderful, and awe inspiring. There in those eyes they get a glimpse of a new perspective, a new point of view on the...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2018/01/19/consciousness-is-something-you-do.aspx

There is a subjective way you experience the world. This is way it is like for you to listen to Jazz, to look around curiously, or to taste dark chocolate. It is hard to know about what it is lik...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2018/01/18/how-attention-shapes-consciousness.aspx

Yesterday, I sketched the priority structure framework: attention consists in the activity of regulating priority structures, which order the parts of the subject’s on-going mental life by thei...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2018/01/17/earthworms-google-servers-and-an-important-kind-of-freedom.aspx

Yesterday, I suggested that we need a theory of attention that gives attention a central place in the mind and serves as a unified framework that integrates different approaches to attention, bot...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2018/01/16/structures-of-the-mind.aspx

Let me tell you about my friend Jayden: these days, Jayden gives a lot of her attention to community work. Jayden has always paid attention to what matters morally over anything else. Her attenti...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2018/01/15/who-needs-a-theory-of-attention.aspx

Mark your calendars! The conference starts Monday and runs for three weeks. The first session's papers are already posted. Commenting for the first session starts Monday. Check out the full post ...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/09/09/2017-minds-online.aspx

Some people thrive under pressure, while others, like me, get anxious, then crash and burn. Why does anxiety lead people some individuals to perform far worse than would be expected of them, why ...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2016/12/01/choking-under-pressure.aspx