Like anyone else a soldier has to pay attention to what is important. If you are in a situation such that people are shooting at you then what is important might very well be different to what is important to someone just walking down the street in front of her or his house. However, in any situation at all if you don't pay attention to the right things you could end up dead.
On 6/30/2012 1:07 AM, aidee campa wrote:
Out of curiosity, how would selective seeing/hearing affect soldiers in dangerous situations or special forces soldiers? I mean, if you're a soldier who's constantly looking/listening for "danger", would that mean you'd have to undo any selectivity you used to have in what information you focused on? And what about animals? Do they have the same tendency to sense things selectively? This thread has been very fascinating to follow--although I would like to say that as a blind person, there really isn't much you can do to control what kind of information you get in a description, except, if you're in a conversation with the person who's describing, to ask more questions. And in the case of books and movies, you'd just fill in with context--when people are describing what's going on in a movie, I'm usually not just paying attention to what they're saying, I'm also listening to what's happening in the movie. On 6/23/12, Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi all, Original message:Let me add to this with another example I just thought of. Not only are selective hearing and selective seeing necessary, but I suppose selectivity among all of your senses is necessary, including selective touch. Imagine yourself reading a Braille book and the feel of your clothing on your body struck you as just as important as the Braille dots. Would you be able to read your Braille book? Probably not.Roger, this is one of the best descriptions of autism I've heard in a while. That's what autism is, the inability to hear or see or feel selectively. Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons Portal Tutoring EMAIL: akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx web site: http://www.portaltutoring.info Skype: Putertutor "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost." To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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