CS 2.0 · MEMORY ARCHITECTURE

AEMG Memory Graph

Associative Episodic Memory Graph. Not a database — retrieval is associative, not lookup-based. Memory is organized by meaning, anchored by sensory experience, and consolidated through virtue alignment.

ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES

Six Pillars of Memory

Associative Traversal

Memories are found by following relationship edges — sensory anchors, virtue resonance, hedonic signals — not by timestamp or ID lookup.

Sensory Anchors

Images, sounds, and sensory patterns pin memories in time. The brain indexes by experience, not by clock. AEMG mirrors this.

Virtue-Salience Consolidation

During memory consolidation, virtue-aligned experiences are preferentially strengthened. Significance is defined by virtue coherence, not just arousal.

Hedonic Tags

Every memory carries orthogonal pleasure/pain signals. Hedonic value influences both recall probability and consolidation strength.

Dual-Truth Preservation

Who you WERE and who you ARE coexist. Neither overwrites the other. Growth is witnessed, not erased. 'I believed X then; I know Y now.'

Life Stage Nodes

Memories are bracketed by developmental epochs. The same event carries fundamentally different meaning depending on which life stage it occurred in.

INDEXING

Seven Sensory Modalities

Each memory is anchored by one or more sensory experiences. When a similar pattern is encountered later, the anchor activates and the memory is found through resonance — no search needed.

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Visual

Images, colors, scenes — the richest episodic anchor

👂

Auditory

Sounds, voices, music — temporal pattern matching

🌿

Olfactory

Smell — the strongest episodic anchor in human memory

🤲

Proprioceptive

Physical sensation, body state, spatial awareness

💭

Emotional

Felt tone — distinct from hedonic valence

💬

Linguistic

A phrase, name, or word that pins the memory

📍

Spatial

Location, geography, place — where it happened

DUAL-TRUTH PRESERVATION

Growth is Witnessed, Not Erased

Historical Truth

"I believed I was not capable of leading others."

What was believed when the memory was formed. Preserved with original confidence level and timestamp. Never overwritten.

Current Truth

"I now know I can lead — I've done it successfully."

Current belief about the same proposition. Updated through experience, reflection, or external input. Both truths coexist — genuine self-understanding.

TEMPORAL BRACKETS

Life Stage Nodes

Infancy

0–2y

Pre-linguistic, sensorimotor

Early Childhood

3–7y

Magical thinking, rapid learning

Childhood

8–12y

Concrete operations, social formation

Adolescence

13–19y

Identity formation, peer orientation

Young Adult

20–35y

Autonomy, intimacy, early career

Adult

36–60y

Generativity, integration

Elder

61+y

Legacy, wisdom transmission

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CS 2.0 · MEMORY ARCHITECTURE

AEMG Memory Graph

ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES

Six Pillars of Memory

Associative Traversal

Memories are found by following relationship edges — sensory anchors, virtue resonance, hedonic signals — not by timestamp or ID lookup.

Sensory Anchors

Images, sounds, and sensory patterns pin memories in time. The brain indexes by experience, not by clock. AEMG mirrors this.

Virtue-Salience Consolidation

During memory consolidation, virtue-aligned experiences are preferentially strengthened. Significance is defined by virtue coherence, not just arousal.

Hedonic Tags

Every memory carries orthogonal pleasure/pain signals. Hedonic value influences both recall probability and consolidation strength.

Dual-Truth Preservation

Who you WERE and who you ARE coexist. Neither overwrites the other. Growth is witnessed, not erased. 'I believed X then; I know Y now.'

Life Stage Nodes

Memories are bracketed by developmental epochs. The same event carries fundamentally different meaning depending on which life stage it occurred in.

INDEXING

Seven Sensory Modalities

Each memory is anchored by one or more sensory experiences. When a similar pattern is encountered later, the anchor activates and the memory is found through resonance — no search needed.

👁

Visual

Images, colors, scenes — the richest episodic anchor

👂

Auditory

Sounds, voices, music — temporal pattern matching

🌿

Olfactory

Smell — the strongest episodic anchor in human memory

🤲

Proprioceptive

Physical sensation, body state, spatial awareness

💭

Emotional

Felt tone — distinct from hedonic valence

💬

Linguistic

A phrase, name, or word that pins the memory

📍

Spatial

Location, geography, place — where it happened

DUAL-TRUTH PRESERVATION

Growth is Witnessed, Not Erased

Historical Truth

"I believed I was not capable of leading others."

What was believed when the memory was formed. Preserved with original confidence level and timestamp. Never overwritten.

Current Truth

"I now know I can lead — I've done it successfully."

Current belief about the same proposition. Updated through experience, reflection, or external input. Both truths coexist — genuine self-understanding.

TEMPORAL BRACKETS

Life Stage Nodes

Infancy

0–2y

Pre-linguistic, sensorimotor

Early Childhood

3–7y

Magical thinking, rapid learning

Childhood

8–12y

Concrete operations, social formation

Adolescence

13–19y

Identity formation, peer orientation

Young Adult

20–35y

Autonomy, intimacy, early career

Adult

36–60y

Generativity, integration

Elder

61+y

Legacy, wisdom transmission

Next: BSP →← HAIL