Adaptive memory
The capacity of memory to be reconstructed, reweighted, and updated as present needs and meanings change.
Working vocabulary
Words for realities that do not hold still.
Seven concepts for reasoning about memory, continuity, personalization, and common life.
Canonical recall
A memory or record granted enough authority to settle which account of an event persists across a system.
Continuity pressure
The force exerted when retained context repeatedly returns a person, relationship, or institution to a prior model of itself.
Perceptual drift
A cumulative change in how a person or community interprets events as interfaces alter context, emphasis, memory, or explanation.
Plural consensus
Enough common reference to coordinate action while disagreement persists about meaning, memory, and responsibility.
Synthetic memory
A machine-maintained representation of past context assembled from stored records, generated summaries, inferences, and retrieval rules.
Reality mediation
The transformation of evidence into a situated explanation through selection, ranking, summarization, personalization, and interface design.