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133. Patterns are fast, rules are slow

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What's the Difference Between Working Memory and Automaticity?

You can't speed up those rules very much, up past a certain point. If you have to add together two numbers that are larger, then you have to go through the process of doing the rules of addition. So, that's one thing, you know, it doesn't matter how experienced you are, those rules are always going to be slow. But I also wanted to talk about working memory and automaticity and actually dual process theory. Something I haven't mentioned in a really, really long time.

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