private · social
not for others, kept inside its own boundary
Examples
- The Swiss Air Force keeps its fighter jet operations and radar placements classified from NATO allies. institutions
- Apple’s iMessage encrypts messages so only sender and recipient devices can access the content. computing
- A queen honeybee’s pheromones suppress ovary development in worker bees, maintaining colony structure. biology
Emergence
through: the thing maintains what is within its boundary and keeps out distinct entities.
- exclusion of outsiders
- internal persistence
- bounded autonomy
Chain to foundations
as tree
- privateL6
- othersL2
- spaceL0
- timeL0
- patternL0
- differenceL1
- patternL0 (shown above)
- boundaryL2
- spaceL0 (shown above)
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- changeL1
- insideL5
- keepL5
- othersL2
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.