On page 53 of OPAR, “perception” is defined as “a group of sensations automatically retained and integrated by the brain of a living organism, which gives it the ability to be aware, not of a single stimuli, but of entities, of things”. But doesn’t perception often require that you focus your attention in order to become fully aware of entities? For example, my wife and I will cycle by some feature such as a beautiful flower bed. She will notice it in some detail and later ask me what I thought about it.I will admit that, even though I had been facing in the same direction, I had not noticed it at all! I was simply not paying attention to what was right in my field of vision. Doesn’t this mean that some perceptions of entities require that you focus ie that it is not always automatic?
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