at every moment of every day we have bombarded…

at every moment of every day we have bombarded by have asked amount of sensory information, which, if we were to think about it, all consciously would overwhelm us. In order to be able to function, our nervous system filters out all, but a very tiny sliver of that information. The reticular activating system is the part of the brain that manages that selection and filtering process.

— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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