The Emergence Machine

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the self-model's parameter for conscious control drifts past its wall, so the practiced action remains inside the motor window but lies outside the self-model's range

Muscle memory (noun) means: the self-model's parameter for conscious control drifts past its wall, so the practiced action remains inside the motor window but lies outside the self-model's range. It emerges from self-model, parameter, wall, drift: the drift of the self-model's control parameter pushes the behavior beyond the wall of its window. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 22, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

muscle-memory.automaticity · forms: muscle memory

ordinarily means: the ability to perform a skill without thinking about it

Emergence

from: self-model parameter wall drift window
through: the drift of the self-model's control parameter pushes the behavior beyond the wall of its window

Chain to foundations

nothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingmodelL9 model.representation: A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.linksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingsconnectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.holdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not movetimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.offL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is thereeventL3 event.occurrence: a change that occurs in a place during a timematterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfacevalueL7 value.magnitude: The number a parameter has at a time.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.occursL2 occurs.event: a change that is at some place during timeactL3 act.deed: do somethinggetL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youinformationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencestouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placemessageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entitydistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingrangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariespatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.noneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thingpersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.putL3 put.placement: to move something into a placegoL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placechangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.muscle memoryL22 muscle-memory.automaticity: the self-model's parameter for conscious control drifts past its wall, so the practiced action remains inside the motor window but lies outside the self-model's rangeenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.likeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundaryarrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingswallL8 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.amountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numberprocessL4 process.general: A set of changes that occur in something over time.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.quantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spacespaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.othersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.forceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionnumberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placesaysL8 says.speech: to make a message that other distinct entities getdriftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inself-modelL14 self-model.reflexive: A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.setsL3 sets.grouped: A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about them.wayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spacesubjectL5 subject.entity: a thing that a change process is about in an eventbroughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spaceparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.carryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.keepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or state
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Neighborhood

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

built frommuscle memoryL22muscle-memory.automaticity — the self-model's parameter for conscious control drifts past its wall, so the practiced action remains inside the motor self-modelL14self-model.reflexive — A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.parameterL4parameter.condition — A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.wallL8wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.driftL11drift.aimless — Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.windowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.

Provenance

author: phrases:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.7 · source: folk phrase — the self-model drifting