Consider: millions of years ago our antecedents gave a massive sacrifice of their left hemisphere. We lost a tremendous amount of short term memory and replaced it with Broca’s, Wernicke & the phonological loop. But why? So we can—talk. Thus chimpanzees can do this—we can’t:pic.twitter.com/CDznxg37p1
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Every animal has a limited amount of brain power and size, so every skill and talent has an opportunity cost. This is not controversial or particularly questioned. The Cognitive Tradeoff hypothesis is about tradeoffs apparent between chimpanzees and human.pic.twitter.com/FzChpI1oDM
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In 1956 "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information” by George A. Miller of Harvard University was published. It was a landmark of human memory research. Bell Labs adopted memory chunking in phone numbers (xxx)-xxx-xxxxpic.twitter.com/SDsB22DRNu
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Spencer, not sure what your “no” refers to. It is clear human buffer memory is quite small and we can argue how many angels dance on the head of a pin, but the point is in 1958 Miller actually did the work to find out how humans work. Others stay in a chair and talked of angels.
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