Crucial knowledge is passed on during community activities, frequently without any conscious attention to the process.
Your conscious attention can then be used to notice what's going on in the situation.
Research has shown that our conscious attention can attend to 5-9 items simultaneously.
His hand was on the woman's waist, but she wasn't paying any conscious attention to him.
Writing it would take longer, but such a book needed his conscious attention.
It wasn't until he touched bottom that the backpack caught his conscious attention.
This is what makes conscious attention so scarce and precious.
Tucker wasn't paying conscious attention to any of the morning sounds and scents.
It was a rhythm that Brett had come to understand without conscious attention.