{
  "id": "mental.cognitive",
  "term": "mental",
  "sense": "cognitive",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "domain": "cognitive",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "That which is about the patterns of energy and matter in a living thing that persist through time and allow for change based on what has been before.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "energy.capacity",
      "matter.substance",
      "time.dimension",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "live.biological",
      "state.condition"
    ],
    "interaction": "Energy and matter form a persistent pattern in time within a living thing, and this pattern changes in response to differences, producing internal states that represent and react to the world.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "representation of the world",
      "response based on memory",
      "internal state that is not directly physical"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "cognitive.mental",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "mental is a surface form of cognitive"
    },
    {
      "id": "physical.material",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "mental refers to non-physical processes"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "mental"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-mental.cognitive"
}