"There are certain modes of attention
which are naturally called forth
by certain kinds of object.
We pay a different sort of attention
to a dying man
from the sort of attention we'd pay to a sunset,
or a carburetor.
However, the process is reciprocal.
It is not just that what we find
determines the nature of the attention
we accord to it,
but that the attention we pay to anything
also determines what it is we find."
Taken from The Master & His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
Published by Yale University Press, 2010
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