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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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on attentional problems

If being distracted is in no way equivalent to not being attentive, but simply being being attentive to something else, then we can better understand why attentional problems problems are often described simultaneously in terms of deficit and hyperactivity. It seems paradoxical: either there is…

—p.184 The Ecology of Attention Conclusion: Towards an Attention Ecology (171) by Yves Citton
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aleatory

The aleatory interplay of these factors

—p.175 Conclusion: Towards an Attention Ecology (171) by Yves Citton
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it enables us to become ourselves archive/mc433

Like sport, like music, attentional effort is first of all worthwhile for its individuation effects. The most important thing that it produces is not simply the possibility of pursuing the individuation of our being (helping us to avoid external threats of destruction), but, above all, the _concr…

—p.172 Conclusion: Towards an Attention Ecology (171) by Yves Citton
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