The Emergence Machine

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persist while doing something through time

continue.action · forms: continue, continued, continues, continuing

Examples

Emergence

from: persist repeats doing time
through: When persistence through time combines with repeating an action, the action continues.

Chain to foundations

actL3 act.deed: do somethingchangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.repeatsL1 repeats.action: to do a pattern again during timehappenL2 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.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.doingL5 doing.activity: the act of engaging in a deedcontinueL6 continue.action: persist while doing something through timeworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacemotionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.actionL4 action.deed: A change that is done by a thing.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
as tree

Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromsiegeL12siege.system — a parameter whose window is walled while its internal drift continuesmomentumL16momentum.retained — drift that continues after the force producing it stopscontinueL6continue.action — persist while doing something through timepersistL1persist.continue — To be the same through time.repeatsL1repeats.action — to do a pattern again during timedoingL5doing.activity — the act of engaging in a deedtimeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.E0 concrete → E14 abstract

Used by (2)

siegeL12momentumL16

Relations

is-apersist.continueis-a

Provenance

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