CM-2 — Chromatic Memory & Contextual Reconstruction: A Cognitive Substrate for Ambient Systems

Abstract Symbolic information systems retrieve meaning through explicit tokens, file structures, and queries. This document defines Chromatic Memory, a post-symbolic cognitive substrate in which information is stored as low-entropy vectors within a seven-dimensional chromatic manifold. Meaning is not retrieved symbolically but reconstructed through contextual activation. Environmental contexts generate semantic attractors that select and resonate with the chromatic residue signatures stored in memory. This architecture dissolves application containers, replaces search with reconstruction, and mirrors biological cognition by enabling context-driven activation of meaning. CM-2 defines the memory layer of the Ambient Era Canon.