# know (cognitive)

be having information

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

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [information](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-information.knowledge), [state](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-state.condition)

**Through:** information is kept in a condition, allowing a subject to be aware of it

**Novel properties:**
- subjective awareness
- retrievable content
- intentional access

## Examples
- The Voyager 1 spacecraft retains navigational data from Earth, enabling autonomous course corrections after 45 years in interstellar space. *(engineering)*
- In 2020, the World Health Organization compiled and disseminated genomic sequences of SARS-CoV-2 to over 190 countries within weeks of its identification. *(institutions)*
- A raven remembers the location of 3,000 hidden food caches for up to nine months, retrieving them through spatial memory. *(biology)*

## Used by
- [legacy code](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-legacy-code.unmeasured) (L15)
- [measure](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-measure.quantitative) (L13)
- [notice](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-notice.perceptual) (L8)
- [tell](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-tell.communication) (L9)
- [understanding](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-understanding.cognitive) (L15)

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