Mnemonic

A stored rule rather than a stored answer — the thing that produces cases you have never seen.

Like you're twelve

There is a difference between remembering that 7 × 8 is 56 and knowing how to multiply. The first is one fact, useless for 7 × 9. The second is a rule that makes 56, and 63, and a product nobody has ever asked you for.

Both live in memory. Only one of them travels.

Precisely

A worked example stored verbatim is recalled only by situations that resemble it. A mnemonic is the relationship itself, held as a bound vector: given the same relation observed in several different contexts, the shared component is recoverable, and applying it to a new context derives the case that was never stored.

Concretely, if each instance is bind(situation, response), then the relation common to all of them survives bundling while the situation-specific parts interfere away. Unbinding that bundle with a fresh situation yields the response appropriate to it.

Two bounds. Capacity is finite, so a single vector holds a limited number of instances before interference dominates — the escape is more vectors, not a bigger one. And contradiction is not resolved silently: two instances that disagree about the same situation weaken each other rather than one winning, so disagreement shows up as low fidelity and is detectable before it is acted on.

Related

Bind · Bundle · Fidelity · Cleanup memory