Focus as Antecedent to Any Choice
Focus is not the same as thinking; it need not involve problem-solving or the drawing of new conclusions. Focus is the readiness to think and as such the precondition of thinking.
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The choice to focus […] is man’s primary choice. “Primary” here means: presupposed by all other choices and itself irreducible.1
Consider what it would mean for the choice to focus or drift to be secondary to the choice to think or evade: this would involve a stolen concept. In order for one to either actively integrate or disintegrate percepts pre-supposes that one’s mind is indeed active. The concepts of floating thought and evasion genetically depend upon the concept of focusing on the incoming sense data. For one to choose which bowl to place a ball in relies on the fact that they have previously picked up said ball.