Fechner’s Law
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Conjunction of evolutionary, Dickensian, Shakespearean and synaptic perspectives.
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Ideas are called to mind. Ideas are put to the back of the mind. Ideas come to mind unbidden. Ideas come to mind in response to perceptions, as apperceptions. Attention is activation of what is relevant and inhibition of what is not relevant, which is…
