Daydreaming / piloto automático

Leonard M. Giambra
Jerome L. Singer
David Chalmers
Franz Brentano
Eric Klinger
Charles Schreiber
Jonathan Schooler

The Case for Doing Nothing



Expanding Levels of The Consciousness:

• Non-conscious -
----- • Information that is entirely outside of awareness.

• Experience -
----- • The contents of consciousness.  Is the on going continuously changing state of mind that an individual apprehends through out his/her waking day. Experience is defined by change, and change requires a flow of time.

• Meta-awareness -
----- • Ones explicit understanding of their conscious experience. Mental departures from the here in now in which individuals attention is directed away from the task at hand (while driving, reading, dancing...)
------------ • The basis of introspection and self-reports

----- • Often neglects or misrepresent experience. 

AND... indeed, mindfulness seems to be the opposite of mind wandering (aos 48min)

AND... There is a correlation between mind wandering and creative performance (aos 1:00:00 min)

"Certainly cognitve psychology has suffered from this problem of third person perspective. [...] And there are, likely, situations where psychology continues to make the error of excessively relying on self reports that are not necessarily valid."

– Mind wandering and multi-tasking