know · cognitive
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Know (verb) means: be having information. It emerges from information, state: information is kept in a condition, allowing a subject to be aware of it. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 7, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The Voyager 1 spacecraft retains navigational data from Earth, enabling autonomous course corrections after 45 years in interstellar space. engineering
- In 2020, the World Health Organization compiled and disseminated genomic sequences of SARS-CoV-2 to over 190 countries within weeks of its identification. institutions
- A raven remembers the location of 3,000 hidden food caches for up to nine months, retrieving them through spatial memory. biology
Emergence
from: information state
through: information is kept in a condition, allowing a subject to be aware of it
- subjective awareness
- retrievable content
- intentional access
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (34 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (5)
Relations
| is-a | information.knowledge | is-a |