Levels, Scale & Decomposition

Primes about how systems are organized across nested levels and scales, and how wholes relate to parts: hierarchy and hierarchical decomposability, reductionism and downward causation, scaling laws and microstructure, decomposition, transformation, and the choice of analytical grain.

29 primes in this family — primes that sit near one another in abstraction space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its structural–framed character and how distinctive (sparsely-neighbored) it is.

• Allometry and Scaling Law — structural · crowded
• Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) — mixed-framed · mid
• Commensurability — mixed-framed · crowded
• Comparison — — · crowded
• Conformity — framed · crowded
• Critical Mass — structural · crowded
• Criticality — — · crowded
• Decomposition — structural · crowded
• Defect — — · mid
• Determinism — — · crowded
• Dissipation — — · crowded
• Downward Causation — structural · crowded
• Environmental Coupling Strength — structural · crowded
• Equivariance — structural · crowded
• Fold — — · distinctive
• Form and Content — structural · crowded
• Gestalt Principles — structural · mid
• Grain of Analysis — — · mid
• Hierarchical Decomposability — — · crowded
• Hierarchy — structural · crowded
• Microstructure — — · crowded
• Multiplexing — structural · crowded
• Non-Locality — — · distinctive
• Progressive Disclosure — — · crowded
• Reductionism — structural · crowded
• Reverse Engineering — mixed-framed · distinctive
• Serialization — — · mid
• Top-Down Perspectives — mixed-structural · crowded
• Transformation — structural · crowded