The Emergence Machine

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having little space between two things

close.spatial · forms: close, closed, closes, closing

Examples

Emergence

from: space difference little
through: space.extent and difference.relation together make the amount of space between things small

Chain to foundations

spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter haschangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.closeL5 close.spatial: having little space between two thingsothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.littleL4 little.size: has less space extent than most othersenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.bigL2 big.size: Having much space; more space than another thing has.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.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 fromthe compression claimL12the-compression-claim.assertion — A claim that the vocabulary of folk terms is a redundant encoding of a small set of situations, such that the range of ppossibilityL14possibility.potential — A window that can be reached from the current window without crossing a wall that is closed.despairL15despair.state — a self-model representing every parameter as having a window that is closed, whether or not the actual parameters are wihopeL15hope.emotional — a self-model representing a currently closed window as reachablepressureL18pressure.ontological — the closing of a parameter's window while the existence window remains open. A deadline removes schedules, not survival,thawL18thaw.recovery — a parameter whose window is widening after having been narrow, closing the window that its narrow state had opened.closeL5close.spatial — having little space between two thingsspaceL0space.extent — Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.differenceL1difference.relation — When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.littleL4little.size — has less space extent than most othersE0 concrete → E14 abstract

Used by (6)

the compression claimL12possibilityL14despairL15hopeL15pressureL18thawL18

Provenance

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