Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.
Iain McGilchrist
British psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and philosopher Iain McGilchrist contemplates the morality of attention in his 2009 book ¡°The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.¡± In his writing, he suggests the effects of attention are cyclical: The attention we give something affects how we perceive it, and vice versa. McGilchrist¡¯s research in brain lateralization (i.e., how the left and right hemispheres of our brains each function) raises questions about how we choose to?. Most notably, this quote serves as a stark reminder that our attention has the power to inform our inner and outer worlds, and we must wield that power wisely.