the cosmolinguist ([personal profile] cosmolinguist) wrote in [personal profile] dreaminghope 2006-12-04 07:46 am (UTC)

I wouldn't get anything done!

Well, yeah, that's exactly why I said it's good! Our brains can only pay attention to a tiny fraction of the sensory input they receive -- imagine really contemplating every blade of grass, every distant conversation -- and that's not even counting the things we do ourselves: every breath, every memory, and all the things we hardly know we're doing, like digesting our food or creating insulin and on and on...

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