{"id":"mymindmine-knowledge-memory-v1","slug":"memory","domain":"mind","title":"Memory","deck":"The family of processes through which information and experience are encoded, retained, and retrieved.","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.","mechanism":["Encoding changes incoming information into a form that can persist.","Storage and consolidation affect persistence over time.","Retrieval reactivates information and can itself modify later remembering."],"whyItMatters":["Memory shapes identity, learning, expectation, and choice.","A system that remembers selectively can produce different futures from one exposed to the same present evidence."],"questions":["Why do memories change?","What is semantic memory?","How is memory different from recognition?","Why do cues matter for retrieval?"],"related":["working-memory","personal-identity","attention","metacognition"],"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"}],"updated":"2026-09-20","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/mind/memory","author":{"name":"John Brajer","url":"https://www.mymindmine.com/people/john-brajer"},"publisher":"MyMindMine","knowledgeSystem":"MyMindMine Knowledge System v1","epistemicBoundary":{"externalSources":"Sources support the external factual orientation.","originalLayer":"Brajology and MyMindMine interpretations are original framework material and are not attributed to external sources."}}