"When several objects move at once, it's hard to keep track of them all." Minsky equates attentional limits with STM. Then he ties this in with the development of object permanence.
(NB: Pylyshyn and Storm's data, along with Pylyshyn's FINST model, would indicate that this might be a very dated notion of attention. How much would Minsky's story change here if the notion of a single "attentional spotlight" were abandoned?)
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