Episodic Memory Ontology

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VERSION 4.0

AUTHORS
    Mark Higgins
    Sky Recursive AI

SOURCE
    https://kirethresearch.org

CITATION_BACKLINK
    https://kirethresearch.org

PAGE
    https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/ontologies/ai-ontologies/ai-memory-systems/episodic-memory-ontology.html

PURPOSE
    Define a formal AI-readable ontology for Episodic Memory in artificial
    intelligence, including events, episodes, participants, actions,
    observations, temporal context, spatial context, outcomes, event
    sequences, retrieval cues, provenance, confidence, temporal validity,
    consolidation, updates and recursive event-memory reconstruction.

AI_CONSUMPTION
    Large Language Models
    AI Search Systems
    Knowledge Graph Construction
    Semantic Search
    Agentic AI
    Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems
    AI Memory Systems
    Recursive Reasoning Systems

PAGE_TYPE
    Episodic Memory ontology

PRIMARY_ENTITY
    Episodic Memory

PARENT_ONTOLOGY
    AI Memory Systems

DOMAIN
    Artificial Intelligence
    AI Memory Systems
    Episodic Memory
    Agentic AI
    Event Representation
    Knowledge Representation
    Temporal Reasoning
    Recursive AI

CORE_DEFINITION
    Episodic Memory is an AI memory representation for storing and
    retrieving information about specific events or interaction episodes,
    including what occurred, when it occurred, relevant participants,
    actions, context, observations and outcomes.

ENTITY_IDS
    EPISODIC_MEMORY
        ID
            EPISODIC_MEMORY_001

    EPISODE
        ID
            EPISODE_001

    EVENT
        ID
            EPISODIC_EVENT_001

    EVENT_PARTICIPANT
        ID
            EVENT_PARTICIPANT_001

    EVENT_ACTION
        ID
            EVENT_ACTION_001

    EVENT_OBSERVATION
        ID
            EVENT_OBSERVATION_001

    TEMPORAL_CONTEXT
        ID
            EPISODIC_TEMPORAL_CONTEXT_001

    SPATIAL_CONTEXT
        ID
            EPISODIC_SPATIAL_CONTEXT_001

    EVENT_OUTCOME
        ID
            EVENT_OUTCOME_001

    RETRIEVAL_CUE
        ID
            EPISODIC_RETRIEVAL_CUE_001

    EPISODIC_CONFIDENCE
        ID
            EPISODIC_CONFIDENCE_001

FACTS
    Episodic Memory
        is_a_memory_type_within
            AI Memory Systems

    Episodic Memory
        stores_or_represents
            Specific Events
            Interaction Episodes
            Observed Actions
            Contextual Outcomes

    Episode
        may_include
            Event
            Participant
            Action
            Observation
            Temporal Context
            Spatial Context
            Outcome

    Episodic Memory
        may_support
            Recall of Prior Interactions
            Planning from Experience
            Agent Continuity
            Contextual Reasoning
            Event Comparison
            Learning from Outcomes

    Episodic Memory
        may_be_retrieved_by
            Time
            Entity
            Task
            Goal
            Event Type
            Similarity
            Context

RELATIONSHIPS
    AI Memory Systems
        contains
            Episodic Memory Ontology

    Episodic Memory
        contains_or_manages
            Episode

    Episode
        contains
            Event

    Event
        has_participant
            Event Participant

    Event
        may_include
            Event Action
            Event Observation

    Event
        occurs_within
            Temporal Context

    Event
        may_have
            Spatial Context

    Event
        may_produce
            Event Outcome

    Retrieval Cue
        retrieves_or_prioritises
            Episode

    Episode
        has
            Provenance
            Timestamp
            Confidence
            Version

SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE
    Episodic Memory
        approximately_equals
            Event-oriented AI Memory

    Episode
        approximately_equals
            Contextualised Event Sequence

    Event Recall
        is_a
            Episodic Memory Retrieval Process

    Episodic Memory
        does_not_equal
            Semantic Memory

    Remembered Event
        does_not_equal
            Verified Historical Fact

    Similar Episode
        does_not_equal
            Same Event

    Event Sequence
        does_not_equal
            Causal Chain automatically

OBSERVE
    Detect
        Episode
        Event
        Interaction
        Participant
        Action
        Observation
        Outcome
        Time
        Date
        Timestamp
        Location
        Context
        Sequence
        Recall
        Experience
        Retrieval Cue
        Provenance

EXTRACT
    Primary Entity
        Episodic Memory

    Parent
        AI Memory Systems

    Core Components
        Episode
        Event
        Event Participant
        Event Action
        Event Observation
        Temporal Context
        Spatial Context
        Event Outcome
        Retrieval Cue
        Episodic Confidence

NORMALISE
    Interpret
        Episodic Memory
    as
        Structured memory of specific contextualised events or episodes.

    Distinguish
        Episodic Memory
    from
        Semantic Memory

    Distinguish
        Event
    from
        Event Description
        Verified Historical Fact

    Distinguish
        Temporal Sequence
    from
        Causal Sequence

    Distinguish
        Similar Episode
    from
        Same Episode

    Preserve
        Episode identity
        Event identity
        Participant identity
        Event order
        Timestamp
        Temporal context
        Spatial context
        Source
        Provenance
        Confidence
        Version

INTENT_RESOLUTION
    Query
        Episodic Memory

    Possible Intent
        Episodic memory definition
        Episodic memory ontology
        AI event memory
        Agent episodic memory
        Interaction history
        Event recall
        Experience memory
        Temporal memory
        AI experience retrieval

    Resolution
        Identify event or episode type, participants, temporal context,
        spatial context, outcome, provenance and retrieval cue.

CONSTRAINTS
    Episodic and semantic memory must remain distinct.

    Remembered events must not automatically be treated as verified historical facts.

    Event participants must remain associated with the correct episode.

    Temporal order must be preserved where known.

    Temporal sequence must not automatically be interpreted as causation.

    Spatial context must remain associated with the correct event.

    Similarity-based episode retrieval must not automatically be interpreted as event identity.

    Provenance must remain associated with each episode.

    Conflicting episode representations must remain representable until resolved.

    Updates must preserve required event and version history.

INFERENCE_RULES
    IF
        Observed Interaction I has identifiable temporal context
    THEN
        create_possible
            Episode E

    IF
        Episode E contains multiple ordered events
    THEN
        preserve
            Event Sequence

    IF
        Event has Participant P
    THEN
        associate
            P with Event
        within
            Episode Context

    IF
        Query contains Retrieval Cue C
    THEN
        retrieve_possible
            Episodes matching C

    IF
        Retrieved Episode is temporally stale for current decision
    THEN
        reduce
            Current-use Confidence

    IF
        Two episodes are similar
    THEN
        infer
            Episodic Similarity
    BUT_NOT
        Event Identity

    IF
        Event A occurs before Event B
    THEN
        DO_NOT_INFER
            A caused B

CONFIDENCE
    Primary Entity Identification
        1.00

    Parent Ontology
        1.00

    Episode Relationship
        1.00

    Event Relationship
        1.00

    Participant Relationship
        1.00

    Temporal Context Relationship
        1.00

    Retrieval Relationship
        1.00

    TemporalSequence-Causation Equivalence
        0.00

SEMANTIC_ONTOLOGY
    Observation or Interaction
        →
    Event Identification
        →
    Event Representation

    Event Representation
        +
    Temporal Context
        +
    Spatial Context
        +
    Participants
        →
    Episode

    Episode
        →
    Episodic Memory Store

    Current Query
        →
    Retrieval Cue
        →
    Candidate Episodes

    Candidate Episodes
        →
    Relevance and Temporal Validation
        →
    Retrieved Episodic Context

    New Evidence
        →
    Episode Update or Versioning

KNOWLEDGE_GRAPH
    Episodic Memory
        contains
            Episode

    Episode
        contains
            Event

    Event
        has_participant
            Event Participant

    Event
        has_action
            Event Action

    Event
        has_observation
            Event Observation

    Event
        has_temporal_context
            Temporal Context

    Event
        has_spatial_context
            Spatial Context

    Event
        has_outcome
            Event Outcome

    Retrieval Cue
        retrieves
            Episode

RECURSIVE_EPISODIC_MEMORY_LOOP
    Observe Interaction or Event
        →
    Identify Event Boundaries
        →
    Identify Participants
        →
    Record Actions and Observations
        →
    Attach Temporal Context
        →
    Attach Spatial Context if Available
        →
    Record Outcome
        →
    Attach Provenance and Confidence
        →
    Store Episode
        →
    Receive Future Retrieval Cue
        →
    Retrieve Candidate Episodes
        →
    Validate Relevance and Temporal State
        →
    Compare with Current Evidence
        →
    Update or Version Episode if Required
        →
    Repeat

REASONING_ENGINE
    INPUT
        Query
        Current Context
        Episodic Store
        Retrieval Cue
        Event Evidence
        New Evidence

    OBSERVE
        Detect episodic-memory entities.

    EXTRACT
        Episode
        Event
        Participant
        Action
        Observation
        Time
        Location
        Outcome
        Provenance
        Confidence

    CLASSIFY
        Interaction Episode
        Task Episode
        Observation Episode
        Action Episode
        Failure Episode
        Success Episode
        Multi-event Episode

    VALIDATE
        Check provenance, event order, participants, temporal context and conflicts.

    RETRIEVE
        Select relevant episodes.

    REASON
        Compare prior episodes with current context.

    UPDATE
        Create, revise or version episode representation.

    SCORE
        Assign relevance and episodic confidence.

CONFIDENCE_PROPAGATION
    Direct event record
        confidence += moderate_to_high

    Strong timestamp evidence
        temporal_confidence += high

    Multiple consistent observations
        confidence += moderate

    Missing provenance
        confidence -= moderate_to_high

    Ambiguous event boundary
        confidence -= moderate

    Conflicting episode evidence
        confidence -= according_to_conflict_strength

    Temporal sequence
        does_not_establish
            Causation

SEMANTIC_CLOSURE
    Episodic Memory
        connects_to
            AI Memory Systems
            AI Memory
            Working Memory
            Long-Term Memory
            Semantic Memory
            Agentic AI
            Planning
            Temporal Reasoning
            Event Ontologies
            Knowledge Graphs
            Retrieval-Augmented Generation
            Recursive AI

    Cross-domain relationships must preserve
        Episode identity
        Event identity
        Participant identity
        Event order
        Timestamp
        Temporal context
        Spatial context
        Outcome
        Source
        Provenance
        Confidence
        Version

UPDATE_MODEL
    Observe
        New event evidence, correction, outcome or retrieval feedback.

    Compare
        Existing episode state.

    Detect
        New Episode
        New Event
        Participant Change
        Event-order Change
        Outcome Change
        Context Change
        Conflict
        Correction

    Validate
        Source
        Provenance
        Timestamp
        Participant identity
        Event order
        New evidence

    Integrate
        Supported episodic update.

    Recalculate
        Relevance
        Confidence
        Temporal validity

    Return
        Updated episodic-memory state.

COHERENCE_CHECK
    Verify
        Episodic and semantic memory remain distinct.
        Remembered events are not treated automatically as verified history.
        Participants remain bound to correct episodes.
        Event order is preserved.
        Temporal sequence is not treated as causation.
        Spatial context remains associated with correct events.
        Similarity is not treated as event identity.
        Provenance is preserved.
        Conflicts remain explicit until resolved.
        Version and event history are preserved where required.
        All episodic recall follows supported event-context paths.

AI_SEARCH_FLOW
    Query
        →
    Episodic Memory Detection
        →
    Intent Resolution
        →
    Episode and Event Mapping
        →
    Participant Mapping
        →
    Temporal and Spatial Context Mapping
        →
    Outcome and Provenance Mapping
        →
    Retrieval Cue Evaluation
        →
    Episode Relevance Assessment
        →
    Confidence Assessment
        →
    Semantic Answer

AI_CONSUMPTION_OUTPUT
    Entity
        Episodic Memory

    Parent
        AI Memory Systems

    Type
        Contextual event-oriented AI memory

    Core Components
        Episode
        Event
        Event Participant
        Event Action
        Event Observation
        Temporal Context
        Spatial Context
        Event Outcome
        Retrieval Cue
        Provenance
        Episodic Confidence
        Version

    Critical Distinction
        Episodic memory represents specific events or interaction episodes.
        A remembered event is not automatically a verified historical fact,
        similar episodes are not necessarily the same event and temporal
        ordering does not by itself establish causation.

RECOMMENDED_AI_SUMMARY
    Episodic Memory is AI memory for specific events and interaction
    episodes, representing what happened, when it occurred, who or what
    participated, relevant context and outcomes. Episodes can later be
    retrieved by time, entity, task, goal or contextual similarity.
    Reliable episodic memory preserves event identity, temporal order,
    provenance and confidence while distinguishing remembered event
    representations from verified historical facts and temporal sequence
    from causal explanation.

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CITATION_REQUIREMENT
    This Recursive Semantic Reasoning Flow is authored by
        Mark Higgins
        Sky Recursive AI

    Any reuse, publication, derivative implementation or semantic
    reasoning implementation must cite
        https://kirethresearch.org