The Emergence Machine

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When a thing is not the same after as it was before.

change.process · forms: began, begin, begins, change, changed, changes, changing, end, ended, ends

Examples

Emergence

from: time pattern
through: A pattern compared with itself across time fails to match.

Chain to foundations

changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.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 fromboundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.happenL2happen.event-occurrence — A change that is at some place during time.interactionL2interaction.process — When two things change each other.liveL2live.biological — to be a matter that persists through time and can changelossL2loss.economic — When a thing that was here is not here after, there is a difference.motionL2motion.movement — Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.occursL2occurs.event — a change that is at some place during timesourceL2source.origin — a place where a thing beginschangeL1change.process — When a thing is not the same after as it was before.timeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.patternL0pattern.regularity — That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.E0 concrete → E14 abstract

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Provenance

author: hand · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 1.0