
72b. John Wooden and cognitive science
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The Limitations of Working Memory
Cognitive science is very much on John Woodin's side here from what I can see because this is all about the limitations of working memory and working memory overload. When you learn something, when it goes into your long term memory, then the amount of space it takes up in your working memory when you're thinking about it is very small. Now in order to make more things go into the working memory, what you need to do, you can't actually expand the size of your working memory. But what you can do is you can reduce the size of the things that go in, even though they are the same thing. End quote.
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