The Emergence Machine

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a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touch

people.social · forms: people, person

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Emergence

from: others sets persist distinct entities interacting interaction touch groups time
through: the distinct entities persist through time and mutually influence each other by touching, forming a coherent group

Chain to foundations

peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.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.spaceL0 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.interactingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchingdistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingtouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.groupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingspersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.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 fromactivitiesL7activities.general — things that are actions people doadultL7adult.person — a person with growth that is now differentanyoneL7anyone.person — any personasksL7asks.social — to get something from another peoplebandL7band.music — a group of people who together create musiccareL7care.emotional — people help others when they have a needcityL7city.place — a big place where many people stay and work within a system of structurescommunityL7community.social — a set of people that interact togetherpeopleL6people.social — a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchothersL2others.distinct-entities — Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.setsL3sets.grouped — A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about thempersistL1persist.continue — To be the same through time.distinctL3distinct.attribute — a thing is not the same as another thingentitiesL4entities.object — things that are each distinct from other thingsinteractingL4interacting.social — when two things change each other while touchinginteractionL2interaction.process — When two things change each other.touchL3touch.together — When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.E0 concrete → E14 abstract

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Provenance

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