You have TWO Choices

[Interloper]

Interesting study on the human brain's apparent ability to handle two cognitive tasks at a time, but no more:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/201 ... ingsatonce

This has interesting correlations to MA concepts, particularly in our bodies' responses to attack sequences. It also explains why our parents, when we were kids, gave us only two choices of what to wear or have for lunch. But why the count of three to quit pulling the cat's tail??

[Dmitri]

Except of course for bagua practitioners, who can handle 8.

[Interloper]

More the point, IMA people who have to hold dynamic opposing lines of tension whilst spiralling AND moving. But I think that even these intent-driven actions are not the same thing as -cognitive- activity. They are more related to motor and non-cognitive aspects of mental function, IME.