Our minds attend to one thing at a time. If you put on a pair of glasses with one lens red and the other green you will not see a "fusion of color" when you look around but you will see a "flashing of red and green". One moment everything will be red then the next it will be green. First you will see something in red then something else or even the first object, depending on a mental choice in green. Actually the ear works the same way, it makes a choice as to the particular sounds that it hears in a particular instant. You hold thousands of instantaneous impressions in suspension just long enough to............make a choice.
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The mind chooses to focus on one object to the exclusion of all others.
Deliberate choices.
The reality is that humans can only focus on one thing at a time. Of course this gets a little complicated when you add the fact that we can't stop thinking. We are always thinking. Thing about something and the choice it represents is one way to understand what our agency is. The reality that we have to constantly chose what we think about is agency. In fact the ongoing process of making choices about our thoughts "creates our individual world". In each choice we express a preference and the process builds up a world that we really do prefer and even love. We judge ourselves in the process. Each moment and thought provides a foolproof test of our character.
Aristotle pointed out long ago that a shortage of knowledge is an intolerable state and so the mind will do anything to escape it even to the point of inventing knowledge if it has to. Good reason to search for knowledge. Good reason for the search to be ceaseless. A good answer to the question, "what do I think about", since in fact we have to make that decision. The best choices are good things. Truth. Knowledge are good items for thoughts...................................
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