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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

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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

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.reportL8 report.information: a message that states information about an eventspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.occursL2 occurs.event: a change that is at some place during timeputL3 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 surfacesizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inrelevanceL12 relevance.core: a parameter whose drift moves a wallwallL10 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.sendL8 send.communication: to make a message move from one place to anotherinsideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarypersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.sourceL2 source.origin: a place where a thing beginsoffL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is thereeventL3 event.occurrence: a change that occurs in a place during a timewayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spaceenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.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.changeL1 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.carryingL5 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.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.nothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingsubjectL5 subject.entity: a thing that a change process is about in an eventactL3 act.deed: do somethingshameL15 shame.emotional: a model of how one is modelled, reporting proximity to a walloutsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundarydistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingquantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spaceworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spaceparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.noneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thingcomeL3 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.backL13 back.spatial: a side of a thing that is part of its boundaryamountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numbermarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeentitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.keepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or statestateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placedriftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.likeL3 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 motionsurfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.numberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placesideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.self-modelL14 self-model.reflexive: A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.messageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entityothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.linksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingstimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencescontactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.makeL4 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.goL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placeholdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not moveprocessL4 process.general: A set of changes that occur in something over time.arrangementL3 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.feedbackL14 feedback.communication: information that is sent back to the source about a change that occurred
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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 occurredwallL10wall.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