<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>First, have a great trip. For how long?<br><br></div>Second a short comment:<br><br>"Empirically, mind wandering is tested by whether a person <i>is not<br>
attending to something that are supposed to attend to</i> (like an ongoing<br>
task), or (if I recall properly) a lack of activity in areas of<br>
executive function as shown in an fMRI."<br><br></div>As you I think you already acknowledged, do you see the extreme negative bias against daydreaming, regarding it as lack (echoing weirdly/revealingly Freud's definition of women's psychology as penis envy) that such a definition contains?<br><br></div>Ciao,<br></div>Murat<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 5:40 PM, B. Bogart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben@ekran.org" target="_blank">ben@ekran.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
Hello Murat,<br>
<br>
I just wanted to answer the following question as my last message before<br>
my trip:<br>
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> If in the moment of daydreaming trajectory cannot exist, how can we say<br>
> possibly that an aware of daydreaming in the moment (therefore<br>
> predictability) possible?<br>
<br>
</span>Is this the same as asking: How can we know we are daydreaming if the<br>
context of daydreaming is devoid of memory or self-awareness?<br>
<br>
Empirically, mind wandering is tested by whether a person is not<br>
attending to something that are supposed to attend to (like an ongoing<br>
task), or (if I recall properly) a lack of activity in areas of<br>
executive function as shown in an fMRI.<br>
<br>
I think pure mind wandering (the kind that is devoid of self-awareness<br>
and trajectory) is rare. I think we oscillate around a lot between<br>
task-positive and task-negative networks such that our awareness keeps<br>
modulating. I would say we become aware of ourselves not attending to<br>
the world and present in a context of memory, and then we don't; We<br>
experience varying degrees of context awareness, self-awareness, and<br>
external awareness.<br>
<br>
Ben<br>
<br>
PS: Thanks again all for the great discussions.<br>
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