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A collective self that reads those crossing into its place as outside its boundary, and their coming as moving its walls.

Outsiders coming in (noun) means: A collective self that reads those crossing into its place as outside its boundary, and their coming as moving its walls. It emerges from collective self, boundary, cross, come: The crossing of a place's edge is read as the crossing of the group's edge, so arrival is modelled as others setting the group's walls, a report near fear. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

outsiders-coming-in.crossing · forms: outsiders coming in, outsiders moving in, people coming in

ordinarily means: newcomers arriving in a community, described as a change to it

Emergence

from: collective self boundary cross come motion out-group fear read space outside wall
through: The crossing of a place's edge is read as the crossing of the group's edge, so arrival is modelled as others setting the group's walls, a report near fear.

Chain to foundations

full chain as text (379 steps)

Neighborhood

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

built from — 3 more not shownoutsiders coming inL17outsiders-coming-in.crossing — A collective self that reads those crossing into its place as outside its boundary, and their coming as moving its wallscollective 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.crossL4cross.pass — To go through a boundary from one place to another.comeL3come.arrive — To move through space until being at some place.motionL2motion.movement — Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.out-groupL16out-group.outside — Those a collective self reads as outside its boundary, whose walls it does not keep.fearL15fear.nearing-wall — A self model reporting a wall as near and moving nearer, so that it narrows its own reach before any crossing.readL7read.information — when entities sees and makes information

Relations

contrasts-withnation-of-immigrants.arrivalthe inverse reading of the same crossing
contrasts-withlocals-only.closedlocals only is a rule against the crossing; outsiders coming in is the report of it

Provenance

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