{
  "id": "remember.cognitive",
  "term": "remember",
  "sense": "cognitive",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 21,
  "arena": "analysis```json5 // (Note: the outer backticks are not part of the output; they just delimit the JSON for readability.)
{
  ",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "when a past memory persists into now",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "memory.cognitive",
      "past.temporal",
      "persist.continue",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "a memory of a past event continues to exist in the present moment through the dimension of time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "memory present now",
      "temporal continuity of experience"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe still transmits data 45 years after launch, its memory banks retaining calibration from 1977.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Helen Keller recalled the moment water touched her hand at the well pump in 1887, describing it decades later in her writings.",
      "domain": "biography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Unix 'tar' command preserves file timestamps exactly, ensuring a 1989 archive unpacks with original dates intact.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "know.cognitive",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "remember",
    "remembered",
    "remembering",
    "remembers"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added 'time.dimension' as it is implicitly required by the persistence of memory across time, which the original definition and interaction rely upon. Definition remains unchanged as it correctly refl"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-remember.cognitive"
}