The Emergence Machine

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thing that brings about a change through interaction with another thing

cause.reason · forms: cause, caused, causes, causing

Examples

Emergence

from: change interaction happen
through: change occurs when interaction between two things brings about an event that did not exist before

Chain to foundations

interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.causeL3 cause.reason: thing that brings about a change through interaction with another thingenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt frommarL4mar.damage — to cause a difference in a thing's statesepL4sep.verb — to cause a thing to be apartleadL10lead.guide — to go before and cause others to followreasonL10reason.causal — a cause for a meaning of why something happensopportunitiesL11opportunities.economic — a possible condition that may lead to a benefiteffectiveL12effective.useful — a property that causes work to result in a benefiteffectsL12effects.result — A difference that results from a cause.ripple effectL12ripple-effect.stacked — a single cause that moves through a chain of dependencies, each next one poised to change only because the prior one didcauseL3cause.reason — thing that brings about a change through interaction with another thingchangeL1change.process — When a thing is not the same after as it was before.interactionL2interaction.process — When two things change each other.happenL2happen.event-occurrence — A change that is at some place during time.E0 concrete → E14 abstract

Used by (14)

marL4sepL4leadL10reasonL10opportunitiesL11effectiveL12effectsL12ripple effectL12bufferL13drugL13knock on effectL16chain reactionL17agencyL20summerL21

Relations

abstractschange.processabstracts

Provenance

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