{
  "id": "learn.cognitive",
  "term": "learn",
  "sense": "cognitive",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "learn",
  "domain": "cognitive",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to change a person's condition by interacting with information so that the condition becomes like the information",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "interaction.process",
      "information.knowledge",
      "people.social",
      "state.condition",
      "difference.relation",
      "change.process",
      "condition.state",
      "interacting.social",
      "like.similarity",
      "process.general",
      "become.change"
    ],
    "interaction": "through mutual interaction with information, a person's condition undergoes a change process that reduces its difference from the information, resulting in a state more like it",
    "novel_properties": [
      "condition resembling information",
      "directed change toward likeness",
      "sustained reduction of difference"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Children in a Bolivian village repeat Quechua phrases taught by elders during weekly storytelling circles.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The MIT robot Cog adjusted its arm movements after processing visual feedback from failed reaching attempts.",
      "domain": "robotics"
    },
    {
      "text": "After the 2008 financial crash, Icelandic lawmakers studied global banking reforms to revise national regulations.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "process.general",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "knowledge.cognitive",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "interest.psychological",
    "skill.ability",
    "study.learning",
    "training.skill"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "learn",
    "learned",
    "learning",
    "learns",
    "learnt"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "Added missing component 'become.change' which is essential for capturing the transition implied in 'becomes like the information'. Definition remains accurate but now fully aligned with components."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-learn.cognitive"
}