1. An operating system configured to support cognitive capable environments, said operating system comprising: a memory structure, said memory structure comprising a symbol allocation table, a symbol space, and a short term memory (STM) image space; at least one input/output (I/O) process configured to update inputs and outputs; at least one short term memory load process configured to determine changes to symbols within said symbol space due to the stimulus and create STM images of the inputs; at least one symbolic associative stimulation (SAS) process configured to pass stimulations (propagate) between connecting symbols within said symbol space; at least one focus process configured to measure temporal and spatial properties of STM images and filter the STM images based upon the properties; at least one process configured for propagation of stimuli through hereditary structures; at least one process configured to analyze propagated symbol groups of STM images for novel distinctions; at least one process configured to create new symbols, connect novel stimuli together for symbol groupings, update existing symbols to include connections to the new symbols, and assign weights to the connections; at least one adaptation process configured to form stimulus-response pairs from received STM images; at least one habituation process configured to provide time-based erosion of connection weights of symbols; and at least one migration process to adapt learned responses to long term memories (LTM).