# high level (abstraction)

*Ordinarily means:* something that is broad and not detailed.

a view that sees only what persists across many instances, because the work of tracking differences has stopped and the model runs on fewer parameters.

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: levels and abstraction  ·  Arena: emergence

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-model.representation), [maintenance](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-maintenance.upkeep), [parameter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-parameter.condition), [persist](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-persist.continue), [general](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-general.broad)

**Through:** emergence

**Novel properties:**
- general.broad

## Examples
- The Linux kernel maintains a single process abstraction across millions of hardware configurations, ignoring individual device quirks. *(computing)*
- The GDP of the United States aggregated all economic activity into one number, erasing differences in labor, goods, and regions. *(economics)*
- The Linnaean taxonomy classifies millions of organisms into a few nested ranks, discarding developmental and genetic variation. *(biology)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-high-level.abstraction*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-high-level.abstraction.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*