“My experience is what I agree to attend to,” wrote William James in 1890. The philosopher, also dubbed the “father of American psychology”, was seeking to answer the question: what shapes our minds?
But what might that mean in our 21st century technological world, in which reality and unreality are so often blurred? It is a subject of much anxious debate — and lots of books. Two notable new additions to this ever- expanding canon, The Sirens’ Call by journalist Chris Hayes, and The Extinction of Experience by think-tanker Christine Rosen, suggest that attention and experience, such essential components of being human, are under threat.
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