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The Limits of Attention
Mental multiplication of two digit numbers and the add 3 task are near the limit of what most people can do. Effort is required to maintain simultaneously in memory several ideas that require separate actions or need to be combined according to a rule. System 2 is the only one that can follow rules, compare objects on several attributes, and make deliberate choices between options. The automatic system 1 does not have these capabilities.