The phenomena of reminding has been receiving quite a bit of attention in the past few years. Researchers have been looking at how previous experience can help in understanding and problem solving. As much of this work has shown, reminding is a complicated process. In this paper, we present requirements on a cognitive architecture that can promote and support these observations. The architectural requirements are those needed by a machine that can use experience to reason. To motivate these requirements, we present observations of reminding that are based on analyses of both actual remindings and hypothetical cases.
