Conceiving of attention as a resource misses the fact that attention is not just useful. It's more fundamental than that: attention is what joins us with the outside world. 'Instrumentally' attending is important, sure. But we also have the capacity to attend in a more 'exploratory' way: to be truly open to whatever we find before us, […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM on December 11, 2018