the.com/absentmindedness
your brain leaving the room while your body keeps awkwardly running the meeting.
means The state of being so lost in thought or so inattentive that you forget what you're doing, where you put things, or what you were about to say.
from A transparent English build: 'absent' (from Latin 'absens,' the present participle of 'abesse,' to be away — from 'ab-,' away, plus 'esse,' to be) joined to 'minded.' So literally 'with an absent mind' — the mind has stepped out. The adjective 'absent-minded' came first; 'absentmindedness' is the noun stacked on top, the quality of having a mind that wanders off without leaving a note.
- famous victim
- Newton once boiled his watch, holding an egg
- brain mode
- default network hijacks attention for daydreams
- door effect
- walking through doorways triggers memory wipes
- upside
- mind-wandering correlates with higher creativity