The Emergence Machine

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a view that sees only what persists across many instances, because the work of tracking differences has stopped and the model runs on fewer parameters.

High level (noun) means: a view that sees only what persists across many instances, because the work of tracking differences has stopped and the model runs on fewer parameters. It emerges from model, maintenance, parameter, persist: emergence. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

high-level.abstraction · forms: high level

ordinarily means: something that is broad and not detailed.

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Emergence

from: model maintenance parameter persist general
through: emergence

Chain to foundations

windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.controlL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.putL3 put.placement: to move something into a placerangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesstructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfaceinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarypersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.setsL3 sets.grouped: A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about them.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.getL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.actL3 act.deed: do somethingmaintenanceL14 maintenance.upkeep: Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.high levelL16 high-level.abstraction: a view that sees only what persists across many instances, because the work of tracking differences has stopped and the model runs on fewer parameters.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacedistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.saysL8 says.speech: to make a message that other distinct entities getmodelL9 model.representation: A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.keepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or stateconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsmarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placelikeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.forceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionmotionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.holdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not moveothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.messageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entitytimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencesmakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.generalL3 general.broad: a thing that is about many other thing and not about one thingarrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromhigh levelL16high-level.abstraction — a view that sees only what persists across many instances, because the work of tracking differences has stopped and the modelL9model.representation — A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.maintenanceL14maintenance.upkeep — Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.parameterL4parameter.condition — A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.persistL1persist.continue — To be the same through time.generalL3general.broad — a thing that is about many other thing and not about one thing

Provenance

author: phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.7 · source: folk phrase — levels and abstraction