{
  "id": "live.biological",
  "term": "live",
  "sense": "biological",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "life",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to be a matter that persists through time and can change",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "persist.continue",
      "change.process",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "matter persists as a continuous entity while undergoing changes across time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal persistence with identity",
      "dynamic continuity",
      "enduring individuality"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A tardigrade survives in cryptobiosis for 30 years in Antarctic moss, resuming metabolism when rehydrated.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe continues transmitting data after 45 years, its systems degrading but functional.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Sun has fused hydrogen into helium for 4.6 billion years, its plasma evolving through fusion and gravity.",
      "domain": "astrophysics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "persist.continue",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "baby.human",
    "biological.life",
    "bush.plant",
    "chicago.city",
    "death.biological",
    "dog.animal",
    "european.regional",
    "garden.planting",
    "legacy-code.unmeasured",
    "nation.political",
    "town.settlement"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "live",
    "lived",
    "lives",
    "living"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Added time.dimension as required conceptual basis; without it, 'persist' and 'change' lack temporal context, making the original components insufficient for the given definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-live.biological"
}