The Emergence Machine

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more matter in a place over time

growth.development · forms: growth, growths

Examples

Emergence

from: matter space time
through: more matter moves into more space during time

Chain to foundations

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.growthL2 growth.development: more matter in a place over timematterL1 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 fromchildrenL8children.human — a person that is part of a family and is in growthgardenL8garden.planting — A bounded place where living growth is cared.matureL8mature.development — when a thing has more growth and age than most things and shows big sizebabyL9baby.human — a young childbushL16bush.plant — a small living growth of matter whose parts are arranged in spacecancerL17cancer.disease — a change when cells grow more than usual and differ from normal in structure or functionspringL17spring.season — the season of growth is a period of time and change and growthsnowball effectL19snowball-effect.stacked-dependency — A change that grows because each next step depends on the size achieved by the previous, until the weight of prior accumgrowthL2growth.development — more matter in a place over timematterL1matter.substance — A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.spaceL0space.extent — Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.timeL0time.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 (9)

childrenL8gardenL8matureL8babyL9bushL16cancerL17springL17snowball effectL19careerL21

Relations

is-adevelopment.growthis-a

Provenance

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