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Podcast: The Jim Rutt Show
Episode: EP 276 Carolyn Dicey Jennings on Attention and Mental Control
Description: Jim talks with philosopher and cognitive scientist Carolyn Dicey Jennings about her book Attention and Mental Control. They discuss mental control vs self-control, the ping pong metaphor, prioritization vs single-threaded focus, voluntary vs automatic attention, perceptual processing & conscious attention, 3 forms of interest, meditation & mind wandering, hyperfocus as a superpower, ADHD & neurodiversity, the emergence of control, wave activity in the brain, local vs global brain activity, and much more.
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Attention and Mental Control, by Carolyn Dicey Jennings
"I Attend, Therefore I Am," by Carolyn Dicey Jennings (Aeon Magazine)
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