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Title:	Cognitive Memoisation (CM) Public Statement and Stewardship Model
Curator:	Ralph B. Holland
Affiliation:	Arising Technology Systems Pty Ltd
Contact:	ralph.b.holland [at] gmail.com
version:	1.0.1
Update:	2026-01-06T21:13Z - Included link to CM-2 release.
Publication Date:	2026-01-06T04:12Z
Intent:	To contain meaning, structure, narrative, or reference
Binding: normative and assertable

Metadata (Normative)

The metadata table immediately preceding this section is CM-defined and constitutes the authoritative provenance record for this MWDUMP artefact.

All fields in that table (including artefact, author, version, date, local timezone, and reason) MUST be treated as normative metadata.

The assisting system MUST NOT infer, normalise, reinterpret, duplicate, or rewrite these fields. If any field is missing, unclear, or later superseded, the change MUST be made explicitly by the human and recorded via version update, not inferred.

Curator Provenance and Licensing Notice

As curator and author, I apply the Apache License, Version 2.0, at publication to permit reuse and implementation while preventing enclosure or patent capture. This licensing action does not revise, reinterpret, or supersede any normative content herein.
Authority remains explicitly human; no implementation, system, or platform may assert epistemic authority by virtue of this license.

Cognitive Memoisation (CM)
Public Statement and Stewardship Model

Cognitive Memoisation (CM) is a public, open framework for epistemic governance: how meaning, reasoning, and knowledge are articulated, externalised, and retained across human interaction with large language models.

CM is intentionally abstract and domain-agnostic. It does not prescribe system architectures, algorithms, implementations, or operational workflows.

CM exists to prevent semantic drift, premature commitment, and category collapse when working with generative systems.

Openness

CM is published openly to ensure:

broad accessibility,
vendor neutrality,
and long-term interpretability.

CM is not offered for ownership or exclusivity.

Any individual or organisation may study, implement, or extend CM principles independently.

CM is defined by its invariants, not by any particular implementation.

Stewardship (Not Ownership)

CM is stewarded, not owned.

The role of stewardship is to:

preserve CM’s conceptual invariants,
prevent semantic dilution,
and ensure that implementation convenience does not redefine meaning.

Stewardship concerns governance and reasoning discipline only.

It does not extend to system design, operational deployment, or implementation control.

Interpretation and evolution are guided by practitioners with demonstrated experience in epistemic modelling, formal systems, and knowledge governance.

Implementations

CM is designed to support multiple independent implementations.

Implementations may differ.

Meaning must not.

Any implementation that claims conformance must respect CM’s published invariants and closed type discipline.

This work does not propose changes to the LLM architecture; it documents a human-governed method for working safely with stateless systems.

Author’s Role

The author of CM is a practicing engineer with experience designing and implementing large-scale systems.

CM is not presented as a purely theoretical construct.

The author understands how CM can be implemented in software and how its invariants can be enforced in practice.

This knowledge is deliberately not embodied in a single reference implementation, so that CM may be realised by many parties without capture by any one vendor, platform, or codebase.

The author’s role is that of steward and mentor, not owner: to preserve meaning, clarify invariants, and support correct interpretation where desired, and to handover the broom.

The author has released Cognitive Memoisation (CM-1) and (CM-2) into the public domain.

CM-2 is a continuation of the work described in Journey: Human-Led Convergence in the Articulation of Cognitive Memoisation, where several concepts later formalised in CM-2 are implied and explored.

CM-2 has been published openly, consistent with CM’s principles of accessibility, neutrality, and durability of meaning.

Readers interested in CM-2 are encouraged to treat the Journey paper as contextual groundwork rather than a specification. CM-2 on the other hand is a specification.

Making authorship visible is how ideas find responsible hands.

Intent

CM is offered as a contribution to public understanding of human–AI knowledge interaction, and as a foundation upon which others may build responsibly.

Its purpose is durability of meaning — not speed, scale, or control.

I am looking for people who want to help carry this forward, understand this deeply, and to govern the direction of CM.

Motto

Nothing is lost.