The Emergence Machine

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to cause a difference in a thing's state

mar.damage · forms: mar, marred, marring, mars

Examples

Emergence

from: difference state cause
through: a difference in a thing's state is brought about by a causal agent, resulting in an imperfection

Chain to foundations

differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.causeL3 cause.reason: thing that brings about a change through interaction with another thingenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.marL4 mar.damage: to cause a difference in a thing's statestateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placetimeL0 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.
as tree

Neighborhood

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

built frommarL4mar.damage — to cause a difference in a thing's statedifferenceL1difference.relation — When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.stateL2state.condition — a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placecauseL3cause.reason — thing that brings about a change through interaction with another thingE0 concrete → E14 abstract

Provenance

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