Focusing and Daniel Kahneman’s System 1 and 2 Thinking

I revisited Kahneman’s System 1 and 2 thinking (thinking fast and slow) after this came up in our February 13 discussion. Kahneman says System 1 (S1) thinking “operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control” (page 20 of “Thinking Fast and Slow”). System 2 (S2) “allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations. The operations of System 2 are often associated with the subjective experience of agency, choice, and concentration.” (page 21) I asked myself how this relates to Peikoff’s description of “focusing”. Kahneman gives examples of S1 such as detecting “that one object is more distant than another”, “orient to the source of a sudden sound”, “answer to 2+2=?”. These seem to be automatic perceptions or revisits of well known knowledge.His examples of S1 include “brace for the starter gun in a race”, “focus attention on the clowns in the circus”,”look for a woman with white hair” and “fill out a tax form”. I think of “focusing” as being similar to saying (or thinking) “pay attention!” to yourself (ie the way your teacher may have scolded you when catching you daydreaming in class). If so, could we say focusing is the way of moving from S1 to S2?