Could this be because as you go, you introduce more dimensions, degrees of freedom into your mental model. To accommodate for this, the brain needs to make room

Could this be because as you go, you introduce more dimensions, degrees of freedom into your mental model. To accommodate for this, the brain needs to make room, and time and time again needs to reshuffle to make space for more connections or to eventually collapse them into multiple different models of a lesser degree. I just read that second order logic can represent all higher order logics. The degree of the logic means the degree of nesting of sets into sets, that are quantified over by the logic expression. If sets of sets of values are all it takes, a two dimensional spatial representation should be enough. So far so good? The problem with text is that it is largely sequential, i.e. one dimension, left to right. > I am a practising computational scientist only practice makes perfect (notice the 2nd C ;-)