The Limits of the Mind
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The Limits of the Mind
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How many thoughts can you juggle at once? What’s the invisible boundary between clarity and cognitive overload? In this season of Light & Origin, we explore one of the most influential works in psychology: George A. Miller’s The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two.
This episode dives into Miller’s groundbreaking 1956 paper that uncovered the brain’s surprising limitation: our short-term memory can typically hold just 5 to 9 “chunks” of information at a time. But this isn’t just about numbers — it’s about how we think, why we forget, and how we can stretch the mind’s natural boundaries with structure, repetition, and intention.
Blending classical Stoic discipline with modern cognitive science, this season unpacks the humble but powerful architecture of human memory — and what it means for learning, attention, and the way we live.