The Emergence Machine

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the use of energy to make a change in something

effort.general · forms: effort, efforts

Examples

Emergence

from: energy change make use
through: energy is applied through use to enable making, resulting in change.

Chain to foundations

changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.effortL7 effort.general: the use of energy to make a change in somethingcontrolL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.deviceL5 device.tool: A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.matterL1 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.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.useL6 use.application: to make something change with a controlothersL2 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.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.motionL2 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 fromstudyL11study.learning — a process of applying effort to information in order to learnfactor of safetyL15factor-of-safety.margin — a parameter whose window is narrower than the distance between the performance wall and the existence wall, maintained bpowerL19power.energy — the capacity to produce change through movement in space over timeeffortL7effort.general — the use of energy to make a change in somethingenergyL0energy.capacity — That by which things can be not as they were.changeL1change.process — When a thing is not the same after as it was before.makeL4make.verb — Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.useL6use.application — to make something change with a controlE0 concrete → E14 abstract

Used by (3)

studyL11factor of safetyL15powerL19

Relations

is-awork.effortis-a

Provenance

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