Evidencev1

Miller's law: working memory capacity is limited to

Miller's law: working memory capacity is limited to approximately 7±2 chunks of information, establishing the biological constraint that makes cognitive offloading through externalization necessary for complex thinking

Why This Is Evidence

Miller (1956) capacity limit supporting Directed Attention as Depletable Resource/007.

Source Lessons

L-0008

Externalization reduces cognitive load

Moving information out of your head frees working memory for higher-order processing. Cognitive offloading is not laziness — it is how minds were designed to operate when paired with tools.

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