Early in the last century, T. S. Eliot wrote that "upon giving the matter a little attention, we perceive that criticism, far from being a simple and orderly field of beneficent activity, from which impostors can be readily ejected, is no better than a Sunday park of contending and contentious orators, who have not even arrived at the articulation of their differences".
When we're in doing or controlling mode, our attention narrows and we perceive objects in the foreground -- the bird, a thought, a strong feeling.
But there was a factor in the Gujarat earthquake response that often gets little attention in the way we perceive disasters and relief operations.
Evidently, what we perceive as "paying attention" to something originates, at the cellular level, in the synchronized firing of a group of neurons, whose rhythmic electrical activity rises above the background chatter of the vast neuronal crowd.
The second passage is in First Replies, in which Descartes says that just as we can clearly and distinctly perceive part of a chiliagon if we focus our attention, we can clearly and distinctly perceive a portion of the sea (AT 7 113).
This suggests that some people may not feel confident that their symptom needs medical attention or perceive their doctor as too busy to be bothered with their concerns.
She was also the template on which Penn based what he calls his "unyielding attention to what we would perceive as injustice".
James held that attention made humans perceive, conceive, distinguish, and remember more effectively and sped their reactions.
What if they don't quite conform, can't easily control their attention span or perceive the structure of the world in their own way and at their own pace?
Traditionally, climacteric stage women seek medical attention when they perceive health problems attributed to this stage such as severe climacteric symptoms, osteoporosis-related fractures, symptoms and/or complications of chronic diseases.
In almost any protest, inequality draws attention to perceived injustices.
