System and Method for Multi-Temporal Cognition in Persistent Cognitive Machines Using Internal Temporal Manifolds

A computer system comprising a hardware processor and memory, wherein the computer system is configured to execute software instructions stored on nontransitory machine-readable storage media that:

• maintain a plurality of internal temporal manifolds, each temporal manifold representing a distinct internal temporal progression structure with an associated pacing metric governing rate of temporal advancement;
• associate cognitive subsystems of the computer system with one or more of the plurality of internal temporal manifolds such that cognitive operations of each cognitive subsystem are governed by temporal progression of the associated temporal manifolds;
• advance progression of each temporal manifold independently based on the pacing metric associated with that temporal manifold;
• dynamically adjust the pacing metric of one or more temporal manifolds in response to monitored system conditions comprising at least one of cognitive load, uncertainty, or task priority;
• annotate thought objects with temporal metadata comprising progression coordinates within one or more of the plurality of temporal manifolds;
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• organize and retrieve the thought objects based on the temporal metadata, wherein recency of a thought object is determined relative to current progression coordinates of the temporal manifolds.