Memory Store

Canonical definition

The total store of encoded content available to an Individual, comprising episodic traces (specific experienced events, retained with their valence) and semantic content (general propositions abstracted from experience). The Memory Store is inclusive and non-committal: it retains contradictory fragments, dormant facts, superseded Beliefs, and propositions entertained but never endorsed, alongside currently held Beliefs. Presence of a proposition in the Memory Store carries no commitment to its Truth. The Thinker draws on the Memory Store when performing Ground-Resolution: it is the body of information the Thinker consults in resolving the Decision Hub’s Scalar into a ground-attribution, and both the Belief Register and the raw material of the Hypothesis Space are drawn from it. The Memory Store itself performs no endorsement and is not read directly by the Decision Hub. Because the Hypothesis Space is constituted from what the Memory Store contains, a Hypothesis whose constituent information is absent from the Memory Store cannot be formed at all: the true Hypothesis then lies outside the Hypothesis Space entirely, and no amount of Ground-Resolution over the available space can recover it. Expansion of the Memory Store, through experience or through acquired vocabulary, is accordingly a precondition of bringing a previously unformable Hypothesis within reach.