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to notice a state in a body

Feel (verb) means: to notice a state in a body. It emerges from touch, state, body, notice: Touch together with a body state is noticed as a condition. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

feel.sensory · forms: feel, feeling, feels, felt

Examples

Emergence

from: touch state body notice
through: Touch together with a body state is noticed as a condition.

Chain to foundations

knowL7 know.cognitive: be having informationarrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.smallL4 small.size: a thing that is less extent than most other thingsoutsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundarybodyL15 body.physical: a piece of matter that has a form and exists in spacespaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.seeL6 see.visual: change when matter interacts with marks visible in space extentmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasrangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariespartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.narrowL5 narrow.spatial: Having a small range between boundaries.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarytimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.formL14 form.shape: The shape of the window, as opposed to whatever is occupying it.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.pieceL3 piece.portion: a part of a thing that has its own boundaryfeelL16 feel.sensory: to notice a state in a bodywindowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencessizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.objectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.noticeL8 notice.perceptual: to see something and know it is therestructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
full chain as text (109 steps)

Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

used bybuilt fromick factorL17ick-factor.aversion — A wall a collective self sets against a thing from a felt reading alone, which persists against any model that reads thepleasureL17pleasure.feeling — A feeling in a human that the human wants to have more of.happyL18happy.emotional — a state where a human feels pleasure and contentmentwounded nationL20wounded-nation.damaged — A collective self reporting that a sudden change or a drift moved its parameters to a wall or over it, felt as loss by mfeelL16feel.sensory — to notice a state in a bodytouchL3touch.together — When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.stateL2state.condition — a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placebodyL15body.physical — a piece of matter that has a form and exists in spacenoticeL8notice.perceptual — to see something and know it is there

Used by (4)

ick factorL17pleasureL17happyL18wounded nationL20

Relations

is-astate.conditiona feeling is a kind of condition
enablestouch.togethertouch enables feeling

Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6