The Emergence Machine

Memory Cognitive

abstract · cognitive · Level 7 · E8

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Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

Memory cognitive is the mental faculty that retains, retrieves, and reconstructs patterns of experience over time, enabling learning, recall, and adaptation, through the processing and storage of information in a way that facilitates the formation of associations and connections between past experiences, but this definition is incomplete without the prerequisite concept of cognition.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “memory” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “memory”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
memoria
Origin language
lat

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL7L6L5L4L3L2L1L0Memory CognitiveCognitionMemoryPerceptionOrganismCellFormLifeStructureChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

thisprerequisitesMemory CognitiveL7CognitionL6MemoryL6E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Cognition L6 (requires)
    cognition is a core concept needed to understand memory cognitive
  • Memory L6 (requires)
    Memory cognitive is the mental faculty that retains, retrieves, and reconstructs patterns of experience over time, enabling learning, recall, and adaptation.