The Emergence Machine

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When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.

Like (verb) means: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing. It emerges from pattern, others: Two things compare their patterns and find them the same. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 3, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

like.similarity · forms: like, liked, likes, liking

Examples

Emergence

from: pattern others
through: Two things compare their patterns and find them the same.

Chain to foundations

likeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.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.
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Neighborhood

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

used by — 2 more not shownbuilt fromfamilyL7family.social — A set of people who stay in a home and like each other.learnL7learn.cognitive — to change a person's condition by interacting with information so that the condition becomes like the informationagreementL8agreement.social — when two or more parties like a just conditioncheckL9check.verification — to see if an object’s state is just like another object’s statecompareL9compare.relation — to be a relation that identifies where two things differ or are alikefriendL9friend.social — a person who interacts with another person, shares support and care, and likes being together.modelL9model.representation — A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.nounL15noun.language — a set of specific details that like a thing's state and form informationlikeL3like.similarity — When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.patternL0pattern.regularity — That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.othersL2others.distinct-entities — Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.

Used by (10)

familyL7learnL7agreementL8checkL9compareL9friendL9modelL9nounL15not one of usL17yellowL22

Relations

abstractspattern.regularityabstracts
contrasts-withdifference.relationcontrasts-with

Provenance

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