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a model reporting its own range as wide, which is why it tracks accuracy rather than opposing it.

doubt.epistemic · forms: doubt, doubts

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Emergence

from: model self-model window wide report track rather range
through: A self-modeling representation communicates the span of its own uncertainty window by reporting it as broad, leading to behavior that tracks incoming information instead of resisting it.

Chain to foundations

likeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.messageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entitychangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.repeatsL1 repeats.action: to do a pattern again during timeholdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not movedistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingkeepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or stateenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.largeL3 large.size: Having more space than a usual thing has.controlL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundarylineL12 line.geometric: a set of points with regular arrangement in spacecontactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsusualL2 usual.common: a thing that is regular in its occurrence over timeinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasself-modelL14 self-model.reflexive: A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesactL3 act.deed: do somethingtrackL13 track.path: a line that is where motion repeats in a placemakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.reportL8 report.information: a message that states information about an eventstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeprocessL4 process.general: A set of changes that occur in something over time.ratherL3 rather.comparative: more different than usualpatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.comeL3 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.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.eventL3 event.occurrence: a change that occurs in a place during a timeparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.pointsL2 points.location: a part that is at a placeputL3 put.placement: to move something into a placesubjectL5 subject.entity: a thing that a change process is about in an eventmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.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.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.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.getL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.wideL4 wide.spatial: has more space extent than usualfurtherL1 further.degree: more space than beforetouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.occursL2 occurs.event: a change that is at some place during timeboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundaryobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placebigL2 big.size: Having much space; more space than another thing has.informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencesdoubtL15 doubt.epistemic: a model reporting its own range as wide, which is why it tracks accuracy rather than opposing it.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.regularL1 regular.frequency: a thing that is the same pattern again over timepressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfaceworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacesaysL8 says.speech: to make a message that other distinct entities gettimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.forceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motion
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Neighborhood

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

built fromdoubtL15doubt.epistemic — a model reporting its own range as wide, which is why it tracks accuracy rather than opposing it.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.self-modelL14self-model.reflexive — A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.windowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.wideL4wide.spatial — has more space extent than usualreportL8report.information — a message that states information about an eventtrackL13track.path — a line that is where motion repeats in a placeratherL3rather.comparative — more different than usualrangeL3range.spatial — the space between two boundariesE0 concrete → E14 abstract

Provenance

author: retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.8 · source: Sample/we-already-had-the-words.md