# Review of SAtructuring the Mind by Wayne Wu
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- Author: [[Wayne Wu]]
- Full Title: Review of SAtructuring the Mind by Wayne Wu
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- Summary: Sebastian Watzl's book "Structuring Mind: The Nature of Attention and How It Shapes Consciousness" delves into attention as a key element in organizing the mind and shaping consciousness. Watzl argues that attention involves prioritizing mental states through a structured process, different from merely focusing on neural or computational processes. His work explores attention's role in consciousness, arguing that attention is necessary for unity, perspective, and subjectivity in conscious experience. Watzl's theory challenges traditional views on attention and offers a unique perspective on how attention structures the mind and influences our conscious experience.
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> Watzl’s account can be construed as an instance of selection for action
> since he takes prioritizing mental states to be something an agent does. Accordingly, regulating priority structures would involve, on the input end, the mental states to be organized and on the output end, the resulting priority structure. Selection for action thereby allows for forms of attention that involve subtle shifts in the organization of the mind. (This gloss gestures at a response to Watzl’s concern whether selection for action can explain attending as action, p. 111.) If mental prioritization is something we can do, then selection for action applies. There could be attentional structuring, but it is only one form of attention and not essential to it. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hs1y9fapqkk55xyrzj33jcrw))
> Fortney, Mark 2018, ‘The Centre and Periphery of Conscious Thought’, in Journal of Consciousness Studies 25: 112–36. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hs1yh0twq8ysv4e7rb9cf0r6))
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