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Your sense of cognitive completeness is an illusion. What you can access at any moment is a context-dependent sample of what you actually know — and the sample changes without your awareness.
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.
Unfinished tasks leave attention residue that degrades focus on subsequent tasks.
When you change contexts you must deliberately load the relevant frame of reference.
When one agent finishes and another starts the relevant context must transfer cleanly.