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We see another striking reversal of the Lockean model in 1792, when Dugald Stewart revisits the theory of attention as selection— but recasts it as essentially deliberate. ”38 The description of attention as an “effort” marks the period’s growing conviction that the mind can concentrate deliberately and productively on particular History and Theory of Attention in the Eighteenth Century 33 phenomena. To illustrate the voluntariness of the filter, Stewart presents a scenario that anticipates one emphasized by twentieth-century cognitive psychology: how a perceiver filters out background noise to tune into a chosen stimulus: When two persons are speaking to us at once, we can attend to either of them at pleasure, without being much disturbed by the other.
14 Attending to a scene is part of the imaginative response to it. By this measure, eighteenth-century poetry actually looks more accessible to readers. Where Alison dismisses some readers as imaginatively inadequate and excessively attentive, the skills for eighteenth-century poetry—though demanding—are more democratically available to all attentive spectators. Th e Filter o f At tent i on Discussions that describe attention operating like a filter form one crucial early arena where such debates begin to coalesce.
Everyone knows that very intense pain may be diverted by a surprise, or by any thing that entirely occupied the mind. 37 When it comes to simple sensation, Reid acknowledges that we do not have control: we can neither conjure material objects to perceive nor avoid perceiving a salient object. But attention is our means of volition. We can voluntarily turn more or less attention to a sensation. Even in the face of extreme pain, we might be diverted by a surprise or an effort to concentrate on something else.