Interacting with the External Environment: The Narrow Limits of Change Principle and the Environmental Organising and Linking Principle

The previous chapters indicated that when dealing with biologically secondary information, human cognition requires a very large information store in order to function. Long-term memory constitutes that store. The bulk of the information held in long-term memory is acquired by borrowing information from other people’s long-term memories with smaller amounts of original information created by a random generate and test procedure.