realizes mental moment

CURIE: gmeow:realizesMentalMoment
IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/realizesMentalMoment
Category: property
Defined by: gmeow:slices/mentation
Box roles: RBox role (What is this?)

Ontological participation: relates a mental process to a gmeow:MentalMoment it MANIFESTS — the process expresses or makes-present an already-potential capacity, state, or mode rather than creating a fresh one. NOT functional — one process may manifest several moments.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:MentalProcess -> gmeow:MentalMoment

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:realizesMentalMoment from gmeow:MentalProcess to gmeow:MentalMoment when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Example Snippets

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

Mental Timeline

Source: slices/core/mentation/examples/mental-timeline.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-mentation-examples-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
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# 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.

ex:morningPerception a gmeow:MentalProcess ;
    rdfs:label "Ada's morning perception of daylight"@en ;
    gmeow:experiencer ex:ada ;                            # functional: one process, one experiencer
    gmeow:mentalProcessType gmeow:processPerception ;     # value-vocab slot, not a subclass
    gmeow:eventTime "2026-06-15T07:12:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime ; # temporal frame — same idiom as events/wedding.ttl
    gmeow:eventTemporalFrame gmeow:temporalFrameUTCGregorian ;
    gmeow:realizesMentalMoment ex:perceivedMorningLight .  # ontological participation: manifests the perceptual capacity

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:MentalProcess, gmeow:MentalMoment

Usage Advice

Use when

Use when the mental process MANIFESTS (makes present, actualises) an existing capacity or state — a perceiving that brings a latent perceptual faculty into actuation, a dreaming that expresses a creative capacity. The process is the occurrent face of something already in the agent's dispositional repertoire.

Avoid when

Avoid it when the process creates something genuinely new (use gmeow:producesMentalMoment) and avoid it when the process changes a held time-scoped tenure (use gmeow:updatesMentalTenure). Do not confuse with the creative-works gmeow:realizes (Expression to Work — Principle 4).

How to use

Assert gmeow:realizesMentalMoment from a gmeow:MentalProcess to the gmeow:MentalMoment it manifests; pair with gmeow:experiencer so the manifested moment and the producing episode share a bearer.

Examples

ex:morningPerception gmeow:realizesMentalMoment ex:perceivedMorningLight.