# knowledge (cognitive)

information that people have about something

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

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

**Through:** people get information and persist it, make a state

**Novel properties:**
- personal storage
- integrated meaning

## Examples
- The Library of Alexandria housed scrolls containing the scientific and philosophical knowledge of the ancient Mediterranean world. *(institutions)*
- A honeybee performs a waggle dance to communicate the location of nectar sources to hive mates. *(biology)*
- The Linux kernel maintains knowledge of hardware drivers and system calls across millions of lines of code. *(computing)*

## Used by
- [believe](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-believe.cognitive) (L9)
- [certain](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-certain.confidence) (L8)
- [cognitive](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-cognitive.mental) (L20)
- [culture](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-culture.social) (L22)
- [education](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-education.learning) (L8)
- [interest](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-interest.psychological) (L8)
- [meaning](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-meaning.significance) (L8)
- [policy](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-policy.governance) (L8)
- [questions](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-questions.linguistic) (L9)
- [science](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-science.knowledge) (L8)
- [technical](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-technical.skill) (L23)
- [technology](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-technology.tool) (L8)
- [think](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-think.cognitive) (L8)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-knowledge.cognitive*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-knowledge.cognitive.json*  
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