# history (record)

a set of previous events that persist as information

- Computed level: L7 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: concept  ·  Arena: history

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [previous](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-previous.temporal), [event](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-event.occurrence), [information](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-information.knowledge), [persist](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-persist.continue), [sets](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sets.grouped)

**Through:** Previous events are grouped and preserved through time as distinguishable patterns of information.

**Novel properties:**
- enduring collective trace
- structured temporal reference

## Examples
- The Library of Alexandria preserved scrolls documenting Mediterranean events from 300 BCE to 500 CE. *(institutions)*
- The Voyager 1 probe carries a golden record with sounds and images from Earth in 1977. *(engineering)*
- The fossil record in the Burgess Shale reveals Cambrian life forms from 508 million years ago. *(biology)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-history.record*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-history.record.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*