@isaacs Okay, I'm technical and you come from FOSS so I'm going to assume you are as well.
Essentially what you're describing are like meta-tags on data, right? So when someone like yourself interacts with an object - your meta-tags are sometimes just not standard tags for the object.
Like, I would see an object using your example "apple" and say -
* Fruit
* Sweet
* Love Gala over others
* Sharp
* Tart
* etc.
and your brain might also add
* 3
* specifically the letter - C
* etc.
I know these are examples, but words are incomplete to thought transfer.