"Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede. What a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way." Iain McGilchrist author of The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World.

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(1) The materialist tradition in Western philosophy begins with Greek philosophy in the 5th century BCE. According to Democritus, the world consists of nothing but atoms in empty space…

https://www.britannica.com/topic/materialism-philosophy/History-of-materialism

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(2) How East and West think in profoundly different ways

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170118-how-east-and-west-think-in-profoundly-different-ways

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(3) “Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede. What a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way.”
Iain McGilchrist, author of The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions
and the Unmaking of the World. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matter_with_Things

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'Attention as a Moral Act' Iain McGilchrist in Conversations on Remaking the World
- Perspectiva series of dialogues with a range of thinkers and intro to Ian McGilchrist. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YHUGuUhB1c4

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https://channelmcgilchrist.com/matter-with-things/

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https://thejollysociety.com/mcgilchrist-attention-is-a-moral-act/

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(4) “The spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act."
Marcel Duchamp

https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/08/23/the-creative-act-marcel-duchamp-1957/

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(5) Simulacra and Simulations 
Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster (Stanford; Stanford University Press

https://web.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/Baudrillard/Baudrillard_Simulacra.html

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(6) New Materialism
https://globalsocialtheory.org/topics/new-materialism/ 

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9566.13265

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