{
  "id": "alive.biological",
  "term": "alive",
  "sense": "biological",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "emergence",
  "domain": "biology",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "inside the existence window, with maintenance holding its parameters within the window through work from within.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "parameter.condition",
      "drift.aimless",
      "wall.range-end",
      "existence.state",
      "work.effort",
      "hold.physical",
      "inside.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "Feedback using a self-model regulates parameters by counteracting drift through internal work, keeping conditions within range boundaries.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "regulated persistence",
      "bounded agency",
      "endogenous control"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A human body maintains core temperature at 37°C despite freezing external conditions, using metabolic heat production.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station sustains internal pressure and oxygen levels for astronauts, countering vacuum and leakage.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 locust swarms in East Africa emerged from isolated breeding populations growing beyond control thresholds.",
      "domain": "ecology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "alive"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "windows.opening (L11) was removed as it refers to architectural features and is not constitutive; hold.physical and inside.spatial were added as they are necessary for 'holding' and 'within' in the de"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-alive.biological"
}