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That's how concentrating your attention goes.

You pick a thing within your field of attention, center your attention upon it and narrow your attention until the thing fills your entire field of attention.

Which gives you a new field of attention. Then you repeat the process. And so on.

A kind of infinite shrinking of perspective.

This is what artists, scientists and engineers do. It's a bit insane. It's the cornerstone of our civilization.



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