Millions of items of the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind - without selective interest, experience is utter chaos. Interest alone gives accent and emphasis, light and shade, background and foreground - intelligible perspective, in a word.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
My experience is what I agree to attend to.
William James (Principles, 1:402)
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