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{{Episode_Infobox | title = Attention Please | caption = | episode_number = 276 | release_date = January 16, 2024 | length = 01:27:24 | listen = [[File:Episode-276-attention-please | quote_source = | opening_subject = | beat_break_song = | main_subject = | guests = | previous_episode = The Ineffable Center (Borges' "The Aleph") | next_episode = }}Attention Please is the 276th episode of the Very Bad Wizards podcast, released on January 16, 2024.
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Show Notes
David and Tamler are back for the new year and one of our resolutions was to do more episodes on William James. Today we talk about his account of 'Attention' from his 1890 volume The Principles of Psychology – another remarkably prescient chapter that still feels more than relevant today. What is attention and how does it function in the mind? What accounts for the different ways that we attend to things? Does attention help to shape or construct our reality? What is attention's connection to the will? Does James anticipate predictive coding theory? Plus we discuss the removal of the head of a renowned university for reasons that have nothing to do with the mission of higher learning. Episode