The Emergence Machine

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the mental ability of a human to think, feel, and remember

mind.cognitive · forms: mind, minded, minding, minds

Examples

Emergence

from: matter energy pattern
through: if matter uses energy to make regular patterns, a mind arises

Chain to foundations

spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.mindL22 mind.cognitive: the mental ability of a human to think, feel, and rememberenergyL0 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.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 fromideasL23ideas.cognitive — a meaning that is in mind about something not heremindL22mind.cognitive — the mental ability of a human to think, feel, and remembermatterL1matter.substance — A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.energyL0energy.capacity — That by which things can be not as they were.patternL0pattern.regularity — That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.E0 concrete → E14 abstract

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Relations

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Provenance

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