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Maintain open questions as persistent search filters…
Maintain open questions as persistent search filters that automatically detect relevant information across future encounters without conscious effort.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Open-Loop Cognitive Cost (Zeigarnik) (uncaptured thoughts consume working memory), Goals as Perceptual Filters (goals define relevance), and Attention as Gate to Conscious Perception (attention is capacity-limited). Feynman's twelve problems demonstrate that externalized questions redirect attention without consuming working memory. The principle prescribes externalizing questions to enable automatic pattern-matching.