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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
Principlev1PR-011

Implement complete externalizations (mind sweeps)…

Implement complete externalizations (mind sweeps) periodically to surface commitments and concerns that current context has suppressed from active recall.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Context-Dependent Memory Encoding (context-dependent retrieval), Open-Loop Cognitive Cost (Zeigarnik) (uncaptured commitments consume working memory), and Availability Heuristic Mechanism (availability heuristic). Prescribes periodic full dumps to counteract context suppression—a maintenance principle for epistemic systems.