Attention is evolutionarily designed to move toward the highest opportunity (food, valuable resources) or the highest perceived threat in the environment, automatically concentrating all mental resources on that target, which was adaptive for hunter-gatherer survival but creates vulnerability to modern attentional hijacking by devices.

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Speaker

Peter Baumann

Evidence Quote

What happens with attention is it either goes to the highest opportunity or it goes to the highest threat that we perceive in our environment... It's automatic

Source

How meditation can change your life and mind | Sam Harris, Jon Kabat-Zinn & more | Big ThinkBig Think
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:15:22 PM

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