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Mutagenesis - Plus

Added 2021-02-02 06:13:29 +0000 UTC

Not much to show in the way of project work lately since i've been busy with commissions, but here's a character sketch i did in the mean time. I've named the four-armed android lab assistant Plus Or Minus Two, or ±2, or just Plus, after the famous psychology paper "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information" by Miller. The paper suggests that the maximum number of objects that can be held in short-term memory is 7±2, which makes the name a bit of a joke since an android is definitely not restricted by this magic number.

The article opens with:
"My problem is that I have been persecuted by an integer. For seven years this number has followed me around, has intruded in my most private data, and has assaulted me from the pages of our most public journals. [...] Either there really is something unusual about the number or else I am suffering from delusions of persecution."