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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 17, 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

othersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.modelL9 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.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.saysL8 says.speech: to make a message that other distinct entities getchangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryforceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.holdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not movecontactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundarieslikeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.actL3 act.deed: do somethinggetL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youmessageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entitymakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.high levelL17 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.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.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeputL3 put.placement: to move something into a placekeepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or stateboundaryL2 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.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinggeneralL3 general.broad: a thing that is about many other thing and not about one thingtimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundaryworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacepressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfacepersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.objectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.maintenanceL14 maintenance.upkeep: Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencestouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.structureL2 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.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromhigh levelL17high-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