marginal · spatial
Near a wall, in the narrow band where small drift decides whether a thing persists though its parts remain.
Examples
- The International Space Station maintains orbit just above atmospheric drag, requiring monthly reboosts to avoid decay. engineering
- In 1986, Chernobyl's Reactor 4 operated despite safety protocols failing in the control room's edge zone. institutions
- A sidewalk ice patch persists for hours in the narrow shadow of a building where sunlight barely reaches. everyday life
Emergence
through: drift.aimless changes a parameter within a narrow.spatial range near a wall.range-end, where small.size variations determine whether.conditional persistence occurs within the window.range of allowable parameter.condition values, despite part.relation and persist.continue.
- proximity to boundary
- fragility of persistence
- sensitivity to minor drift
Chain to foundations
as tree
- marginalL12
- windowL7
- parameterL4
- rangeL3
- boundaryL2 (shown above)
- persistL1 (shown above)
- changeL1 (shown above)
- outsideL6
- partL1 (shown above)
- wallL10
- driftL11
- parameterL4 (shown above)
- changeL1 (shown above)
- goL3
- makeL4
- nothingL10
- noneL9
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- amountL8
- offL2
- spaceL0 (shown above)
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- noneL9
- wayL9
- spaceL0 (shown above)
- linksL8
- partL1 (shown above)
- connectsL7
- flowL3
- interactionL2 (shown above)
- persistL1 (shown above)
- structureL2 (shown above)
- broughtL6
- happenL2
- parameterL4 (shown above)
- narrowL5
- nearL2
- spaceL0 (shown above)
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- smallL4 (shown above)
- whetherL4
- conditionL3 (shown above)
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- stateL2 (shown above)
- persistL1 (shown above)
- partL1 (shown above)
- windowL7
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.