How Huzro remembers: five kinds of memory

Identity memory, personal memory, working memory, knowledge memory and social memory. Why continuity depends on organising memory, not just storing it.

Without memory there is no continuity. But a representation that simply stores everything is not remembering, it is hoarding. Huzro organises memory into five kinds, each with a different job.

Identity memory

The foundation of who the representation is: name, values, principles, the things that rarely change. It answers "who am I?".

Personal memory

Experiences and important events. It answers "what have I lived through?".

Working memory

The context in use right now: the task at hand, the conversation in progress. It is short-lived by design.

Knowledge memory

What has been learned: facts, procedures, how to do things. A representation that learned how you reply to a supplier does not need to learn it again.

Social memory

The history of relationships and interactions: who someone is, how you know them, what happened between you.

Memory that can be trusted

Every memory carries how certain it is and where it came from. Something you confirmed is treated differently from something the representation inferred, and when two memories contradict each other the conflict is flagged rather than silently overwritten.

A representation should know what it knows, and how it knows it.

Memory is preserved in the Digital Home, so it outlives any single phone.