{
  "id": "healthy.condition",
  "term": "healthy",
  "sense": "condition",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "system",
  "domain": "emergent",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "inside the range of a parameter where the thing persists, and the work of keeping it there is less than the energy the thing produces.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "parameter.condition",
      "energy.capacity",
      "persist.continue",
      "inside.spatial",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "range.spatial",
      "work.effort"
    ],
    "interaction": "The components together regulate a parameter within a viable range by exerting maintenance effort, where persistence requires less work than the energy available.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "regulatory balance",
      "net energy surplus",
      "bounded resilience"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The human body maintains blood pH around 7.4; deviations beyond 0.1 disrupt cellular function and demand corrective breathing or kidney action.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station's thermal control system keeps internal temperatures between 18°C and 27°C despite external swings from -150°C to 120°C.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The US Federal Reserve targets 2% annual inflation, adjusting interest rates to keep the economy within that range since 1990.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "healthier",
    "healthiest",
    "healthy"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing foundational concepts from definition: inside.spatial, keep.maintenance, range.spatial, work.effort. No definition rewrite needed. All components are pre-existing and acyclic. Definition"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-healthy.condition"
}