 Whether or not one thinks that attention is always responsible for bringing things into our consciousness, there are good reasons to think that changes in the direction of our attention can make some difference to the character of conscious experience. Phenomenologists and Gestalt psychologists have characterized this difference in various ways, with Maurice Merleau-Ponty emphasizing the way in which attention can configure the figure/ground structure of perceived space (Merleau-Ponty, 1962, Chp.3–4), and Aron Gurwitsch (Gurwitsch, 1964) elaborating a theory in which the configuration given by attention has a more complex, three-part structure (explained in Arvidson, 2006). In the second half of his 2017 book, Sebastian Watzl develops a similar suggestion, on the basis of his claim that the role of attention is to impose a priority structure on our mental lives (see above  §2.4),  (Watzl, 2011, 2017).