A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice or partition of a much larger space in which mental processing takes place.

When you are simply observing your breath, you are perceiving an automatically unfolding process in your body. By contrast, when you are observing your wandering mind, you are also experiencing the spontaneous activity of a process in your body.

You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.

The self is not a thing, but a process.

If we lose the ability in question for a single moment only, we are immediately being hijacked by an aggressive little "Think me!" and our mind begins to wander.

Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to yourself.

All attention is introspection.