Knowledge is different from skills. Knowledge is used to enhance skills. Not all skills come from knowledge. Not the whole knowledge is used to enhance skills.
Knowledge shall be stored. This storage must save available resources. How exactly is knowledge stored within an intelligent being memory? Clues have been given by neurosciences but the whole system complexity still remains globally out of reach. However, knowledge management can be studied from its external appearance.
First, knowledge shall be stored.
Moreover, knowledge shall be re-usable. A past experience has to be compared to a new similar situation.
No new real event is entirely similar to a previous one. The storage of knowledge shall ease approximative comparison and classification.
Of course, neural networks rather well perform such a task.
The ability of generalization is a powerful feature of evolved intelligent being brains. Generalization operates within time and space.
Storage
Stored knowledge starts always from stimuli.
Are elementary stimuli close together in space and in time?
If they are close enough in space and in time, this proximity is recorded as an elementary knowledge.
On most sensor events, only time proximity is significant. The sequence doesn't matter. However chronology is recorded on a time line and can be used later if relevant. The elementary sense of cause and consequence comes later from the sense of sequence.
Recall
New stimuli activate stored elementary knowledge. Stimuli must be numerous enough and located in a zone of sensors previously involved in a stored elementary knowledge. The recall can be triggered even if new stimuli are slightly different from stored stimuli.
Competitive recall
If several elementary pieces of knowledge in the same zone are activated by new stimuli, then they will compete. At a given time in a given zone, most activated piece of knowledge will be considered as most suited for the present situation.
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