Myths & mysteries
Number 7 fascination stems from human memory limits
HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART
Cultures worldwide treat the number seven as a deeply sacred figure, but cognitive science has a much more boring explanation. It happens to be the exact limit of items the average human working memory can hold at once, making it less of a divine sign and more of a biological bottleneck.
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