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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Temporal span of consciousness, pointers?
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Date: 11 Jun 90 06:27:26 GMT
Reply-To: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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I once read somewhere the claim that the temporal span of conscious experience 
was in the area of 15" -- a sort of short-term active memory of self that's
quite unlike other types of recall, a deficiency of which is that I can't
recall where I came across this idea. Has anyone heard of this claim, or
know of its origins? 

Thanks,

--eliot