The Matter With Things Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
"Attention changes what kind of a thing comes into being for us: in that way, it changes the world."
– Dr. Iain McGilchrist
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
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By paying a certain kind of attention, you can humanise or dehumanise, cherish or strip of all value. By a kind of alienating, fragmenting and focal attention, you can reduce humanity – or art, sex, humour, or religion – to nothing. You can so alienate yourself from a poem that you stop seeing the poem at all, and instead come to see in its place j
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The kind of attention we bring to bear on the world changes the nature of the world we attend to,