The Science Of Taming The Wandering Mind
The brain is a highly efficient energy demanding organ that gets fully utilized and, even though it is at full capacity being used, it suffers from a problem of information overload. There’s far too much in the environment than it can fully process. So to solve this problem of overload evolution devised a solution, which is the brain’s attention system. Attention allows us to notice, select, and direct the brain’s computational resources to a subset of all that’s available....