{
  "id": "chance.random",
  "term": "chance",
  "sense": "random",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "abstract",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "drift with no feedback available that would determine its direction.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "drift.aimless",
      "available.accessible",
      "direction.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "The absence of available feedback that could guide it combines with aimless drift and an undefined direction to constitute chance as randomness.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "undirected variation",
      "uninformed drift",
      "unconstrained change"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Cosmic microwave background radiation shows a near-uniform temperature of 2.7 K across the sky, with minute fluctuations from quantum fluctuations in the early universe.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The genetic makeup of the Tristan da Cunha island population includes a high incidence of asthma due to the founder effect from a small number of settlers.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bitcoin’s proof-of-work system adjusts mining difficulty every 2016 blocks to maintain a 10-minute average block time despite fluctuating network hash rates.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "chance"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Removed 'feedback.communication' as the definition negates its presence ('no feedback'), and added 'available.accessible' and 'direction.spatial' which are explicitly referenced in the original defini"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-chance.random"
}