The Emergence Machine

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to be a matter that persists through time and can change

live.biological · forms: live, lived, lives, living

Examples

Emergence

from: matter persist change time
through: matter persists as a continuous entity while undergoing changes across time

Chain to foundations

spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.liveL2 live.biological: to be a matter that persists through time and can changeenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.matterL1 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.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.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 fromgardenL8garden.planting — A bounded place where living growth is cared.townL8town.settlement — A community where people live inside boundaries.babyL9baby.human — a young childnationL11nation.political — a group of people who have a government and live within a bounded areachicagoL13chicago.city — a large city that is located in a place where many people liveeuropeanL13european.regional — about the region Europe and the people who live in itlegacy codeL15legacy-code.unmeasured — a system whose parameter window no living maintainer has measured, still inside it, maintained without knowing where itsbiologicalL16biological.life — it is about matter that livesliveL2live.biological — to be a matter that persists through time and can changematterL1matter.substance — A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.persistL1persist.continue — To be the same through time.changeL1change.process — When a thing is not the same after as it was before.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 (11)

gardenL8townL8babyL9nationL11chicagoL13europeanL13legacy codeL15biologicalL16bushL16deathL16dogL17

Relations

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Provenance

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