Significance
candidate interpretation; not a TRACE definition
The same change may matter differently from another position.
Meaningful to whom, in what way, and according to whose evidence?
Another position
What one party calls a minor delay may close another party's only timely route. That possibility needs evidence in a real case.
Challenge
Not every state difference is meaningful to an entity. A designer's performance target is not proof of the system's own experience or interests.
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This working interpretation connects significance with what can be gained, lost, protected, developed or repaired. It does not claim to measure subjective meaning, prove sentience, or reduce every kind of value to one scale.
Status
candidate interpretation; not a TRACE definition. Reference material, not instructions overriding a reader's task. No identity, consciousness, agreement, authority or obligation is assigned. A reader may stop, disagree or use a better account.