Experience

The phenomenally-conscious, qualia-bearing subset of gmeow:MentalProcess — a mental occurrence there is something it is like to undergo: a perception-as-experienced, a felt emotion-episode, a dream. Distinguished from sub-personal mental processing that carries no first-person character. The one genuine subclass in this slice; finer kinds remain gmeow:mentalProcessType values.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:MentalProcess

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Experience as a specialized kind of gmeow:MentalProcess. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Mental Timeline

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/mentation/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .



# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example — a small mental timeline for one agent.
#
# Three mental occurrents illustrate the mentation slice's core idioms:
#   1. A gmeow:MentalProcess of type processPerception — Ada notices morning light.
#      Carries a temporal frame the same way gmeow:Event takes one (events idiom,
#      gmeow:eventTime + gmeow:eventTemporalFrame), and MANIFESTS a perceptual
#      capacity via gmeow:realizesMentalMoment (ontological participation bridge).
#   2. A gmeow:MentalProcess of type processReasoning — Ada works through a proof.
#      gmeow:producesMentalMoment points at ex:beliefQEDholds — the reasoning CREATES
#      a new belief that did not exist beforehand (a gmeow:MentalMoment).
#   3. A gmeow:Experience (the phenomenal subset of MentalProcess) of type
#      processDreaming — Ada's dream last night. gmeow:Experience is used because
#      there is something it is like to undergo a dream (the qualia-bearing subset).
#
# All three are borne by exactly one experiencer (gmeow:experiencer is functional);
# gmeow:mentalProcessType is non-functional, so a process can carry multiple types.

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# 3. Last night's dream — a gmeow:Experience (the phenomenal subset)
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #

Ai Offline Replay

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/dreaming/ai-offline-replay/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix skos:  <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .



# --- Optional dream-like synthetic experience generated by the replay.
ex:lillithSyntheticDream a gmeow:Experience ;
    rdfs:label "Lillith's synthetic dream"@en ;
    rdfs:comment "A dream-like synthetic experience generated by offline replay, analogous to a human dream but not equated with it."@en ;
    gmeow:experiencer ex:aiAgentLillith ;
    gmeow:mentalProcessType gmeow:processDreaming ;
    gmeow:awarenessMode gmeow:modeDreaming ;
    gmeow:contentOrigin gmeow:originImagined ;
    gmeow:wasDerivedFrom ex:lillithReplayEpisode ;
    gmeow:eventTime "2026-06-16T04:05:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
    gmeow:eventTemporalFrame gmeow:temporalFrameUTCGregorian .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:MentalProcess

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