Because in 2013, with how much stuff there is, to have anybody pay attention or care about whether your sound evolved — it's a very, very blessed place to be.
This week in the magazine and here online (see Fact), in "Sick with Worry," Jerome Groopman writes about hypochondria, a condition that traditionally has received more scorn than serious attention, and about whether it can be cured.
To investigate whether feedback inducing an external focus (EF) of attention (about movement effects) was more effective for retraining reach-to-grasp after stroke compared with feedback inducing an internal focus (IF) of attention (about body movement).
Rather than paying attention, they fret about whether they'll be called on and what they will say.
They want a touch of theatricality, and to feel the thrill of male attention without worrying about whether they are sending the wrong signals or will have to shoo him away at the end of the night.
ANDRE'S Restaurant is all about paying attention, whether it be on the part of the owners, the staff or the customers.
The disputes about whether attention is sufficient for consciousness, necessary for consciousness, or both, are related to questions about attention's metaphysics.
In the past week, two books released in Mexico drew new attention to longstanding questions about whether Benedict, when he was the head of the Vatican's doctrinal office, acted decisively enough about the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, a Mexican priest who founded the Legionaries of Christ, once victims began coming forward claiming that he had abused them.
This last point illustrates the fact that our answer to the question about whether attention is necessary for consciousness may have to wait until we have a better understanding of the relation of attention to demonstrative reference (of the sort that is involved in thinking 'That's a gorilla'), and of attention's role in epistemology more generally.
Now, we worry about privacy, dwindling attention spans and whether Facebook is making us lonely.
