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A collective self that divides into an in-group and an out-group along a line between its north and its south, each reading its walls as set in different places.

North-south divide (noun) means: A collective self that divides into an in-group and an out-group along a line between its north and its south, each reading its walls as set in different places. It emerges from collective self, boundary, north, south: A line on the land becomes a line in the self model; wealth and reach read as differing across it, and each pole reads the other as the reason. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

north-south-divide.regional · forms: global north, global south, north south divide, the north south divide

ordinarily means: a gap in wealth, opportunity or outlook between the northern and southern parts of a country or of the world

Examples

Emergence

from: collective self boundary north south line difference set division in-group out-group along read wall space
through: A line on the land becomes a line in the self model; wealth and reach read as differing across it, and each pole reads the other as the reason.

Chain to foundations

full chain as text (382 steps)

Neighborhood

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

built from — 6 more not shownnorth-south divideL17north-south-divide.regional — A collective self that divides into an in-group and an out-group along a line between its north and its south, each readcollective selfL15collective-self.shared — A self model kept across many members, whose subject is the group they are members of, so the group reads itself as one boundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.northL13north.direction — the side of a place that is up on a mapsouthL13south.direction — the side of a place that is down in the usual map arrangement of spacelineL10line.geometric — a set of points with regular arrangement in spacedifferenceL1difference.relation — When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.setL9set.fix — To make a wall or the value of a parameter stay in one place.divisionL5division.process — the act of making parts out of a whole

Relations

contrasts-withheartland.coreheartland reads one region as the core; the divide names two poles
is-aus-versus-them.splitthe divide is a split drawn on a map

Provenance

author: claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated · date: 2026-09-29 · confidence: 0.85 · source: schema/power-agency-phase.md