Principlev1

Implement complete externalizations (mind sweeps)

Implement complete externalizations (mind sweeps) periodically to surface commitments and concerns that current context has suppressed from active recall.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Context-Dependent Memory Encoding (context-dependent retrieval), Open-Loop Cognitive Cost (Zeigarnik) (uncaptured commitments consume working memory), and Availability Heuristic Mechanism (availability heuristic). Prescribes periodic full dumps to counteract context suppression—a maintenance principle for epistemic systems.

Source Lessons

L-0005

Mental inventory is always incomplete

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.

Connections

Derived From (3)

AxiomOpen-Loop Cognitive Cost (Zeigarnik)AxiomContext-Dependent Memory Encoding AxiomAvailability Heuristic Mechanism

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