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  "id": "mind.cognitive",
  "term": "mind",
  "sense": "cognitive",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "draft",
  "level": 22,
  "arena": "mind.cognitive",
  "domain": "cognitive",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the mental ability of a human to think, feel, and remember",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "energy.capacity",
      "pattern.regularity"
    ],
    "interaction": "if matter uses energy to make regular patterns, a mind arises",
    "novel_properties": [
      "self‑awareness",
      "subjective experience",
      "intentionality"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The human brain processes memories and emotions through electrochemical signals across neural networks.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "IBM's Watson answered questions on Jeopardy! by analyzing language and retrieving stored knowledge.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "A Buddhist monk meditates daily to regulate thoughts and emotional responses over decades.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "cognitive.mental",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "experience.cognitive",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "ideas.cognitive"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "mind",
    "minded",
    "minding",
    "minds"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-mind.cognitive"
}