But it does seem that our attention system, the way our mind works, is designed to help us focus on one thing and to filter out things that we don't care about.

但是似乎看起来，我们的大脑运行的方式，关注系统是用于帮助我们集中于一件事，忽略掉那些我们并不关心的事。

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Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, wrote, "The net is designed to be an interruption system, a machine geared to dividing attention."

《浅薄：互联网如何毒化了我们的大脑》一书的作者尼古拉斯·卡尔写道：“网络被设计成一个中断系统，一台用来分散注意力的机器。”

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This most recent collision with Jupiter brought attention to how the huge planet's gravity affects our solar system.

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And the answer,she says, is that bilingual people are often better at controlling their attention -- a function called the executive control system.

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Prof Daniel Simons, author of the original invisible gorilla study, explained that this effect is not unique to radiologists and reflects the way our attention system works.

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So, what I intuited from my work on placebo was that many therapies may elicit healing by using the sense of touch, or more generally the manipulation of somatic attention in order to address a disordered somatic-attention system.

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We cannot call ourselves a nation of equals until we pay equal attention to all those in our criminal justice system whose stories merit our attention, regardless of their race or gender.

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