The Emergence Machine

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a capacity to do something that results from having enough energy and a regular pattern of process.

ability.capacity · forms: abilities, ability

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Emergence

from: energy regular process capacity enough pattern potential results
through: energy and a regular pattern of process combine to create a capacity to do something.

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

used bybuilt fromableL20able.capacity — has abilityagencyL20agency.capacity — the ability to cause actioncognitiveL20cognitive.mental — the ability to form knowledge by thinking about thingsmemoryL20memory.cognitive — the ability of a person to keep information about previous events and retrieve it laterskillL20skill.ability — a learned ability to perform actions in a placeabilityL19ability.capacity — a capacity to do something that results from having enough energy and a regular pattern of process.energyL0energy.capacity — That by which things can be not as they were.regularL1regular.frequency — a thing that is the same pattern again over timeprocessL4process.general — A set of changes that occur in something over time.capacityL11capacity.size — the maximum load that a thing can have while its parameter stays inside the windowenoughL8enough.sufficient — a quantity that is not less than the needpatternL0pattern.regularity — That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.potentialL18potential.capacity — a window that is open and unoccupiedresultsL11results.outcome — an outcome that is the difference that follows a changeE0 concrete → E14 abstract

Used by (5)

ableL20agencyL20cognitiveL20memoryL20skillL20

Relations

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Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6