...have faith, is to will. "The essential achievement of the will, in short, when it is most 'voluntary,' is to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind." We act quickly and decisively in anger and love because our attention is not distracted by other possibilities....

...that the theory predicts" [Sta07] and that this is in line with William James's idea that an act of will is to "attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind" [Jam92, p. 417]. Thus, in summary, Stapp believes that quantum mechanics invites the introduction of...

...considerations into a definition: "The essential achievement of the will, in short, when it is most 'voluntary', is to ATTEND to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind" (PP II, 561; emphasis in original). A difficult object is one that we cannot pay attention to without...

...in the mind. And later The essential achievement of the will, in short, when it is most 'voluntary', is to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind. [. . . ] Effort of attention is thus the essential phenomenon of will. Still later, James says: Consent...

...165) . The effort felt in difficult cases of exercising one's will is simply that of forcing oneself "to ATTEND to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind" when strongly inclined to think of other things (PP, 1166). "Effort of attention is thus the essential...

...of voli tion implies. The essential achievement of the witl, in short, when it is most 'voluntary,' is to ATTEND to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind. The so-doing is the/ia*l| To sum it all up in a word, the terminus of the psychological process in...