{"id":"mymindmine-knowledge-system-v1","name":"MyMindMine Knowledge System","version":"1","updated":"2026-09-20","author":{"name":"John Brajer","url":"https://www.mymindmine.com/people/john-brajer"},"domains":["mind","psychology","philosophy","neurodivergence","brajology"],"entries":[{"slug":"attention","title":"Attention","domain":"mind","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/mind/attention","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/attention","directAnswer":"Attention is the selective allocation of cognitive resources. It helps a mind prioritize some information, actions, or goals while leaving other available information less processed.","sources":[{"label":"APA Dictionary: attention","url":"https://dictionary.apa.org/attention","publisher":"American Psychological Association"}]},{"slug":"working-memory","title":"Working Memory","domain":"mind","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/mind/working-memory","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/working-memory","directAnswer":"Working memory refers to systems that keep information highly accessible while it is being manipulated for tasks such as reasoning, comprehension, planning, and problem solving.","sources":[{"label":"APA Dictionary: working memory","url":"https://dictionary.apa.org/working-memory","publisher":"American Psychological Association"}]},{"slug":"memory","title":"Memory","domain":"mind","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/mind/memory","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/memory","directAnswer":"Memory is not one container. It is a family of processes and systems involved in retaining information, making prior experience available, and reconstructing what was learned or encountered.","sources":[{"label":"APA Dictionary: semantic memory","url":"https://dictionary.apa.org/semantic-memory","publisher":"American Psychological Association"},{"label":"APA Dictionary: active memory","url":"https://dictionary.apa.org/active-memory","publisher":"American Psychological Association"}]},{"slug":"perception","title":"Perception","domain":"mind","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/mind/perception","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/perception","directAnswer":"Perception is the process through which sensory information is organized and interpreted into awareness of objects, relationships, and events.","sources":[{"label":"APA Dictionary: perception","url":"https://dictionary.apa.org/perception","publisher":"American Psychological Association"},{"label":"APA Dictionary: perceptual set","url":"https://dictionary.apa.org/perceptual-set","publisher":"American Psychological Association"}]},{"slug":"emotion","title":"Emotion","domain":"mind","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/mind/emotion","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/emotion","directAnswer":"Emotion refers to organized responses that can include subjective feeling, physiological change, appraisal, expression, and tendencies toward action. Different theories disagree about which components are primary.","sources":[{"label":"APA Dictionary: primary emotion","url":"https://dictionary.apa.org/primary-emotion","publisher":"American Psychological Association"}]},{"slug":"motivation","title":"Motivation","domain":"mind","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/mind/motivation","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/motivation","directAnswer":"Motivation describes forces that give behavior purpose or direction and influence willingness to expend effort toward an outcome.","sources":[{"label":"APA Dictionary: motivation","url":"https://dictionary.apa.org/motivation","publisher":"American Psychological Association"}]},{"slug":"metacognition","title":"Metacognition","domain":"mind","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/mind/metacognition","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/metacognition","directAnswer":"Metacognition is awareness of one's own thinking and, often, deliberate attempts to monitor or control that thinking.","sources":[{"label":"APA Dictionary: metacognition","url":"https://dictionary.apa.org/metacognition","publisher":"American Psychological Association"}]},{"slug":"executive-function","title":"Executive Function","domain":"mind","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/mind/executive-function","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/executive-function","directAnswer":"Executive functions are higher-level processes involved in planning, decision-making, inhibition, organization, flexibility, problem solving, and persistent goal pursuit.","sources":[{"label":"APA Dictionary: executive functions","url":"https://dictionary.apa.org/executive-functions","publisher":"American Psychological Association"}]},{"slug":"consciousness","title":"Consciousness","domain":"mind","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/mind/consciousness","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/consciousness","directAnswer":"Consciousness is commonly discussed as subjective awareness or experience of self and world. There is no single agreed theory that fully explains what consciousness is or how it relates to nonconscious processes.","sources":[{"label":"Stanford Encyclopedia: Consciousness","url":"https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/","publisher":"Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"}]},{"slug":"decision-making","title":"Decision-Making","domain":"psychology","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/psychology/decision-making","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/decision-making","directAnswer":"Decision-making is the process of selecting among available actions or judgments. Real decisions are shaped by incomplete information, time, state, incentives, perceived risk, memory, emotion, habits, and which options are visible in the first place.","sources":[{"label":"APA: definition and scope of psychology","url":"https://www.apa.org/about","publisher":"American Psychological Association"}]},{"slug":"confirmation-bias","title":"Confirmation Bias","domain":"psychology","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/psychology/confirmation-bias","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/confirmation-bias","directAnswer":"Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek, notice, interpret, or emphasize evidence that supports prior expectations while discounting or failing to seek contradictory evidence.","sources":[{"label":"APA Dictionary: confirmation bias","url":"https://dictionary.apa.org/confirmation-bias?vid=1000013","publisher":"American Psychological Association"}]},{"slug":"self-regulation","title":"Self-Regulation","domain":"psychology","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/psychology/self-regulation","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/self-regulation","directAnswer":"Self-regulation refers broadly to processes through which people monitor and adjust internal states or behavior in relation to goals, demands, values, and context.","sources":[{"label":"APA: psychology as science and application","url":"https://www.apa.org/about","publisher":"American Psychological Association"}]},{"slug":"perspective","title":"Perspective","domain":"psychology","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/psychology/perspective","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/perspective","directAnswer":"A perspective is a way of interpreting or organizing a situation. Because representations foreground some relationships and background others, perspective can change what a person notices without changing the external facts themselves.","sources":[{"label":"APA Dictionary: perspective","url":"https://dictionary.apa.org/perspective","publisher":"American Psychological Association"}]},{"slug":"agency","title":"Agency","domain":"psychology","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/psychology/agency","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/agency","directAnswer":"Agency concerns an agent's capacity to act, influence outcomes, and participate in selecting or regulating behavior. In practice, agency is constrained by information, resources, social conditions, habits, perceived possibility, and available actions.","sources":[{"label":"Stanford Encyclopedia: Free Will","url":"https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/","publisher":"Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"}]},{"slug":"uncertainty","title":"Uncertainty","domain":"psychology","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/psychology/uncertainty","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/uncertainty","directAnswer":"Uncertainty means the available information does not determine one known outcome or interpretation. It can concern what is true now, what caused an event, what action will work, or what future state will follow.","sources":[{"label":"Stanford Encyclopedia: Epistemology","url":"https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/","publisher":"Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"}]},{"slug":"adhd","title":"ADHD","domain":"neurodivergence","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/neurodivergence/adhd","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/adhd","directAnswer":"Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is a developmental disorder characterized by persistent symptoms of inattention and/or hyperactivity and impulsivity that interfere with functioning across important settings.","sources":[{"label":"NIMH: ADHD","url":"https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd","publisher":"National Institute of Mental Health"}]},{"slug":"autism","title":"Autism","domain":"neurodivergence","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/neurodivergence/autism","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/autism","directAnswer":"Autism spectrum disorder is a neurological and developmental disorder that affects communication, interaction, learning, and behavior. Autism is described as a spectrum because characteristics, strengths, challenges, and support needs vary widely.","sources":[{"label":"NIMH: Autism Spectrum Disorder","url":"https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/autism-spectrum-disorder","publisher":"National Institute of Mental Health"}]},{"slug":"free-will","title":"Free Will","domain":"philosophy","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/philosophy/free-will","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/free-will","directAnswer":"Free will concerns whether and in what sense agents possess meaningful control over their actions. Major disputes concern the ability to do otherwise, sourcehood, self-determination, causal determination, and moral responsibility.","sources":[{"label":"Stanford Encyclopedia: Free Will","url":"https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/","publisher":"Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"}]},{"slug":"epistemology","title":"Epistemology","domain":"philosophy","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/philosophy/epistemology","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/epistemology","directAnswer":"Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge and related concepts such as justification, evidence, belief, rationality, understanding, and the limits of what can be known.","sources":[{"label":"Stanford Encyclopedia: Epistemology","url":"https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/","publisher":"Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"}]},{"slug":"personal-identity","title":"Personal Identity","domain":"philosophy","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/philosophy/personal-identity","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/personal-identity","directAnswer":"Personal identity covers several distinct questions, including what makes a person persist through time and which characteristics a person experiences as central to who they are.","sources":[{"label":"Stanford Encyclopedia: Personal Identity","url":"https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/","publisher":"Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"}]},{"slug":"behavior","title":"Behavior","domain":"psychology","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/psychology/behavior","machineUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/knowledge/behavior","directAnswer":"Behavior broadly refers to an organism's activities in relation to internal and external stimuli. Psychology studies behavior alongside cognition, emotion, development, social context, and other processes.","sources":[{"label":"APA Dictionary: behavior","url":"https://dictionary.apa.org/behavior","publisher":"American Psychological Association"}]}]}