The Emergence Machine

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the ability of a person to keep information about previous events and retrieve it later

memory.cognitive · forms: memories, memory

Examples

Emergence

from: ability information event find keep people previous time later
through: The capacity to persist knowledge of past events enables retrieval when sought by a person.

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

used bybuilt fromrememberL21remember.cognitive — when a past memory persists into nowmemoryL20memory.cognitive — the ability of a person to keep information about previous events and retrieve it laterabilityL19ability.capacity — a capacity to do something that results from having enough energy and a regular pattern of process.informationL6information.knowledge — a pattern of marks that are differenceseventL3event.occurrence — a change that occurs in a place during a timefindL6find.search — to get a thing that was searched for in a placekeepL5keep.maintenance — to make something persist in a place or statepeopleL6people.social — a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchpreviousL1previous.temporal — a thing that is before now in timetimeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.E0 concrete → E14 abstract

Used by (1)

rememberL21

Relations

is-aability.capacitymemory is a kind of ability
enablesinformation.knowledgememory enables the use of stored information

Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6