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There is a moment before a thought arrives when the mind is not empty, exactly, but open. Neuroscience has a few names for what happens in it. Philosophy has had a couple of thousand years to argue about whether there is anyone there to notice.
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On attention
Attention is the only currency this page spends, and it should spend it slowly. A reader who arrives from the cover image should find the title, then the date, then the first sentence, and nothing in between.
- Notice the thought.
- Notice that you noticed.
- Try to find the one who noticed.
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After a thematic break, a closing paragraph. The line above is three small dots rather than a rule, because the page has no borders anywhere. The link at the very end of the post takes you back to the section.