Absent-mindedness
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"The story is told (by Kierkegaard) of the absent-minded man so abstracted from his own life that he hardly knows he exists until, one fine morning, he wakes up to find himself dead."--incipit to Irrational Man (1958) by William Barrett |
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Absent-mindedness can refer to three very different things:
- a low level of attention ("blanking" or “zoning out”);
- intense attention to a single object of focus (hyperfocus) that makes them oblivious to events around them; or
- unwarranted distraction of attention from the object of focus by irrelevant thoughts or environmental events.
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