Augustine tells, in the eighth chapter of his De trinitate XI (PL, c. 996), that he often notices after reading a page or a chapter that he does not remember at all what he has read. He has to read the text again. According to Augustine’s explanation of the phenomenon, if one is not interested, the text does not reach one’s memory. The eyes are reading, but the mind does not follow the thoughts read.
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Yrjönsuuri, M. (2007). The Structure of Self-Consciousness: A Fourteenth-Century Debate. In: Heinämaa, S., Lähteenmäki, V., Remes, P. (eds) Consciousness. Studies In The History Of Philosophy Of Mind, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6082-3_6
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