persistence · endurance
Ask PrometheusRemaining within a window while a parameter changes, whether kept by the narrowness of the window or by work against drift.
Persistence (noun) means: Remaining within a window while a parameter changes, whether kept by the narrowness of the window or by work against drift. It emerges from window, drift, parameter, maintenance: The components interact to sustain a thing within a bounded condition as parameters change over time, either by resisting drift through effort or by confinement within narrow limits. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The International Space Station maintains orbit at 400 km altitude despite atmospheric drag, requiring regular reboosts from visiting spacecraft. engineering
- Neurons in the human prefrontal cortex sustain firing patterns during working memory tasks, holding information for seconds despite neural noise. biology
- The U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates from 0.25% to 5.5% between 2022 and 2023 to curb inflation above its 2% target. economics
Emergence
through: The components interact to sustain a thing within a bounded condition as parameters change over time, either by resisting drift through effort or by confinement within narrow limits.
- sustained presence within bounds
- resistance to parameter drift
- persistence through maintenance or constraint
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (222 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (3)
Relations
| contrasts-with | drift.aimless | Persistence is maintained either despite drift or by a window constrained enough that drift does not force exit. |