{
  "id": "symmetry-versus-regularity-licence.licence",
  "term": "symmetry versus regularity licence",
  "sense": "licence",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "abstraction",
  "domain": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A model persists longer when its parameters have a window constrained by symmetry than when they are merely narrow due to regularity; falsified if both fail at similar rates.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "drift.aimless",
      "model.representation",
      "persist.continue",
      "narrow.spatial",
      "regularity.pattern",
      "rating.evaluation",
      "long.size",
      "due.expected",
      "similar.comparative"
    ],
    "interaction": "The components jointly track how long a model endures under symmetric versus regular parameter constraints by evaluating failure rates under drift.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "asymmetric persistence advantage",
      "symmetry-constrained endurance",
      "comparative failure timing"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The LIGO interferometer maintains alignment within nanometers despite thermal drift, using symmetric mirror suspension to extend calibration life.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The human visual cortex retains face recognition ability after stroke damage, leveraging bilateral symmetry to preserve function longer than expected from neural density alone.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The TCP congestion control algorithm stays stable under variable latency because symmetric acknowledgment windows resist drift better than fixed thresholds.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/we-already-had-the-words.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "windows.opening (L10) was added as it is constitutive of the boundary structure implied in symmetry-constrained windows; components unrelated to the core mechanism of persistence under constraint were"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-symmetry-versus-regularity-licence.licence"
}