{
  "id": "belonging.member",
  "term": "belonging",
  "sense": "member",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 16,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "Being read by a collective self as one of its members, so that the walls it sets read as one's own.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "member.social",
      "read.information",
      "set.fix",
      "wall.range-end"
    ],
    "interaction": "Membership moves walls inward: once a collective self reads a thing as a member, the walls the group sets stop reading as imposed from outside and start reading as the member's own.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "walls that stop reading as imposed",
      "inside-ness granted by others' models",
      "the price and gift of 'we'"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "autonomy.self-governed",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "autonomy sets walls from within one self; belonging lets a group's walls read as set from within"
    },
    {
      "id": "dependence.condition",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the same walls set by another, read from outside the group rather than inside it"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "bharat-vs-india.names",
    "legitimacy.endorsed",
    "loyalty.kept",
    "national-pride.collective",
    "wounded-nation.damaged"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "belong",
    "belonged",
    "belonging",
    "belongs"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-belonging.member"
}