The Emergence Machine

frozen · state

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a parameter whose window is narrower than most, forming a wall that holds a thing in place so that drift cannot move it, allowing a window at a higher level to open.

frozen.state · forms: frozen

Examples

Emergence

from: parameter window wall drift narrow hold motion allow form open level space enables high occurs range
through: Feedback between a narrow parameter range and an immovable boundary prevents drift, allowing higher-level ranges to become accessible by holding lower-level states fixed.

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

built fromfrozenL18frozen.state — a parameter whose window is narrower than most, forming a wall that holds a thing in place so that drift cannot move it,parameterL4parameter.condition — A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.windowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.wallL10wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.driftL11drift.aimless — Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.narrowL5narrow.spatial — Having a small range between boundaries.holdL13hold.physical — keep thing with touch and force so it does not movemotionL2motion.movement — Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.allowL17allow.permission — let thing to enable itE0 concrete → E14 abstract

Relations

is-anarrow.spatialused in the same window ontology

Provenance

author: retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.8 · source: Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md