The Emergence Machine

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a role that controls a government

president.political · forms: president, presidents

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Emergence

from: people government role control
through: people select a role that controls a government through collective delegation of control via participation in a governmental structure

Chain to foundations

changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.lawL3 law.rule: a regular pattern that is what will happen when a thing is with another thingcontrolL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryrulesL9 rules.social: regular patterns that control how things are orderedentitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsextentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesinteractingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchingmakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.narrowL5 narrow.spatial: Having a small range between boundaries.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placegovernmentL10 government.administrative: a group that makes rules for people in a placepatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.orderL8 order.arrangement: a parameter whose window is narrowcomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inpresidentL14 president.political: a role that controls a governmentmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.roleL13 role.social: a position within a collective that performs a recurring pattern of behaviorpersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchdifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the 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.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundaryboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.objectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placestructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.regularL1 regular.frequency: a thing that is the same pattern again over timesmallL4 small.size: a thing that is less extent than most other thingstimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.groupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has pattern
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Neighborhood

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

built frompresidentL14president.political — a role that controls a governmentpeopleL6people.social — a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchgovernmentL10government.administrative — a group that makes rules for people in a placeroleL13role.social — a position within a collective that performs a recurring pattern of behaviorcontrolL4control.ability — A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.E0 concrete → E14 abstract

Relations

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Provenance

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