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a model of how one is modelled, reporting proximity to a wall

Shame (noun) means: a model of how one is modelled, reporting proximity to a wall. It emerges from model, self-model, feedback, wall: A self-model receives feedback about a parameter's position relative to a wall and generates a report on how that self is modelled, forming the basis of the experience. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

shame.emotional · forms: shame

Examples

Emergence

from: model self-model feedback wall parameter window report
through: A self-model receives feedback about a parameter's position relative to a wall and generates a report on how that self is modelled, forming the basis of the experience.

Chain to foundations

valueL7 value.magnitude: The number a parameter has at a time.nothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.subjectL5 subject.entity: a thing that a change process is about in an eventmodelL9 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.connectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryself-modelL14 self-model.reflexive: A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.reportL8 report.information: a message that states information about an eventsourceL2 source.origin: a place where a thing beginsforceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionflowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.sideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.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.noneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thinghappenL2 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 somethingeventL3 event.occurrence: a change that occurs in a place during a timegetL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youmessageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entitylinksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingsmakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.goL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placecomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.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.wallL8 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsbackL13 back.spatial: a side of a thing that is part of its boundaryrelevanceL12 relevance.core: a parameter whose drift moves a wallstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeputL3 put.placement: to move something into a placequantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spacenumberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in 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.occursL2 occurs.event: a change that is at some place during timedistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinginsideL5 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.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfacecarryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact.workL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacepersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.feedbackL14 feedback.communication: information that is sent back to the source about a change that occurredwayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spaceoffL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is theresetsL3 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.sendL8 send.communication: to make a message move from one place to anotherprocessL4 process.general: A set of changes that occur in something over 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.shameL15 shame.emotional: a model of how one is modelled, reporting proximity to a wallinformationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencesdifferenceL1 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.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placedriftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.amountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numbersizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is intouchL3 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 fromshameL15shame.emotional — a model of how one is modelled, reporting proximity to a wallmodelL9model.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.self-modelL14self-model.reflexive — A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.feedbackL14feedback.communication — information that is sent back to the source about a change that occurredwallL8wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.parameterL4parameter.condition — A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.windowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.reportL8report.information — a message that states information about an event

Relations

contrasts-withpride.statePride signals distance from a wall; shame signals proximity.

Provenance

author: retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.8 · source: Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md