> From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Back to an old thread: what's the impact of adding a new children > to a set of children? -- whose answer depends on the cardinality > of the initial set. > > Hmmm.... IIRC, I read somewhere [and probably more than 20 years > ago] that the human mind does not understand instinctively any number > above 2. > > I think I agree. > > Getting out with two children, you *always* know where they are. > You keep a constant track of them. With three or more [today there > were four - niece included] our inconscious mind *always* > sends messages requiring us to *count* them, in order to > verify if they are all near.
I was under the impression that the human mind would recognize a set of six without having to count, but that everything above that would cause them to have to count. I know I read something about this this year. How many digits does the average person control at the same time?
