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an option that is selected among other options

Choice (noun) means: an option that is selected among other options. It emerges from options, select: the option is selected among other options. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 9, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

choice.decision · forms: choice, choices

Examples

Emergence

from: options select
through: the option is selected among other options

Chain to foundations

timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.optionsL8 options.choice: a set that can be selectedtakeL6 take.acquisition: to get something by moving it from its place into your ownmakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.getL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youpatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.putL3 put.placement: to move something into a placeboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.othersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.setsL3 sets.grouped: A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about them.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.selectL7 select.choice: to take one part from many that differchoiceL9 choice.decision: an option that is selected among other options
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Neighborhood

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

used by — 5 more not shownbuilt fromchooseL10choose.decision — to select a choice among othersdecisionL10decision.cognitive — selecting one option from among differing alternatives over timeinsteadL10instead.alternative — as a difference that is a choice between one thing and anothermenuL11menu.list — a list of items offered so that one may be chosenzugzwangL14zugzwang.forced — A thing that must act when each action within its reach moves it nearer a wall, and not acting is the one action out of nudgeL15nudge.drift-steer — Power that sets no wall but pushes where drift goes inside another's window, so its choices go one way without its modelreality checkL15reality-check.chosen — a reading of the actual range taken by choice while the correction is still small, the cheap self-administered version obuyer's remorseL16buyers-remorse.own-choice — A self model reading a choice it made soon before as a wall it set on itself, now the choice is out of its reach.choiceL9choice.decision — an option that is selected among other optionsoptionsL8options.choice — a set that can be selectedselectL7select.choice — to take one part from many that differ

Used by (13)

chooseL10decisionL10insteadL10menuL11zugzwangL14nudgeL15reality checkL15buyer's remorseL16executiveL16stay the courseL16face the musicL17hobson's choiceL18voter fatigueL18

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Provenance

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