The Emergence Machine

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a state that requires little work

easy.effort · forms: easier, easiest, easily, easy

Examples

Emergence

from: state work little required
through: When a condition obligates only a small degree of effort, the state is perceived as easy.

Chain to foundations

changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.needL5 need.psychological: a state that diverges from a persistent condition of an objecteasyL7 easy.effort: a state that requires little workextentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasrequiredL6 required.obligation: a condition that is a needstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placepatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.littleL4 little.size: has less space extent than most othersmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.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.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.objectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.bigL2 big.size: Having much space; more space than another thing has.workL3 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.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromsimpleL13simple.effort — few windows beneath, whether or not it was easy to reach.trapL15trap.undesirable — a window whose parameter is easy to drift into and hard to drift out ofeasyL7easy.effort — a state that requires little workstateL2state.condition — a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeworkL3work.effort — a change that happens when energy moves something through spacelittleL4little.size — has less space extent than most othersrequiredL6required.obligation — a condition that is a needE0 concrete → E14 abstract

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simpleL13trapL15

Relations

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Provenance

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