{
  "id": "experience.cognitive",
  "term": "experience",
  "sense": "cognitive",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "cognition",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a condition of a subject that results when an event occurs to the subject",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "subject.entity",
      "event.occurrence",
      "condition.state",
      "occurs.event",
      "results.outcome"
    ],
    "interaction": "when a subject is with an event, a condition results from the occurrence.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "resultant state of the subject",
      "temporal onset from occurrence",
      "subjective persistence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2017 solar eclipse was visible across the United States, altering light and temperature for millions of observers.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "After the 2008 financial crisis, unemployed workers reported persistent anxiety, even years later.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The user felt disoriented upon entering the zero-gravity environment of the International Space Station for the first time.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "despair.state",
    "fun.leisure",
    "movies.entertainment",
    "skill.ability"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "experience",
    "experienced",
    "experiences",
    "experiencing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts to components: condition.state, occurs.event, results.outcome. Definition remained correct; this was a lazy record."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-experience.cognitive"
}