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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 18, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

shame.emotional · forms: shame

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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

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.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.relevanceL15 relevance.core: a parameter whose drift moves a wallmessageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entitydriftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.actL3 act.deed: do somethingcontactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.saysL8 says.speech: to make a message that other distinct entities getboundaryL2 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 motionwindowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.processL4 process.general: A set of changes that occur in something over time.likeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.reportL8 report.information: a message that states information about an eventparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.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.feedbackL17 feedback.communication: information that is sent back to the source about a change that occurredgetL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youdifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.amountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numberstructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.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.sendL8 send.communication: to make a message move from one place to anotherlinksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingsconnectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.holdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not movegoL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placenothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingeventL3 event.occurrence: a change that occurs in a place during a timesizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inwayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spacechangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.keepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or statemarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryhappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.workL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacestateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placepartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarysourceL2 source.origin: a place where a thing beginscontrolL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.shameL18 shame.emotional: a model of how one is modelled, reporting proximity to a wallwallL14 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.backL16 back.spatial: a side of a thing that is part of its boundarynoneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thingpressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfaceentitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsquantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spaceconditionL3 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.offL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is thereoccursL2 occurs.event: a change that is at some place during timespaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.subjectL5 subject.entity: a thing that a change process is about in an eventtimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.sideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingrangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariescarryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact and under control.self-modelL14 self-model.reflexive: A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.numberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placeputL3 put.placement: to move something into a placeothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromshameL18shame.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.feedbackL17feedback.communication — information that is sent back to the source about a change that occurredwallL14wall.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