ABSTRACT
Mind wandering, which one considers represents an important function of the mind as a doer. The doing mind focuses. It may anticipate correctly or incorrectly, learn, and perfect a skill. This process of performing a task sharpens, articulates, strengthens, and in various ways promotes both cohesiveness and flexibility of the sense of self. The starting point right along has been phenomenology. But it is a phenomenology that has been enriched by clinical observation, infant research, and neuroscience. Within that framework, the continued to focus on the phenomenology of lived experience. That encompasses not only conscious on lived experience we awareness, but non-conscious and unconscious modes of experiencing, with each mode influencing the others. This also describes the worlds in which each doer lives the worlds in which each doer lives, and the relationship of the doer doing to the origins of the sense of self.
