Are we, to begin with, an empty slate and do we get to know the world as the experiences we have leave their mark on that empty slate that we initially are? Although it may seem counterintuitive, it happens, on the contrary, that we only know that part of the world to which we pay attention, and attention is a resource that means that we search through it for something that was already prefigured in our expectation; as Ortega says, “to fixate is precisely to look for the object in advance, and it is like foreseeing it before seeing it.” That is the reason why Don Quixote fell in love with Dulcinea before she was a real woman.
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