security · safety
a condition where a thing stays inside its boundary and others are not inside.
Examples
- The International Space Station maintains atmospheric pressure within its hull, keeping vacuum outside. engineering
- Antibodies in human blood identify and neutralize pathogens while preserving self-cells. biology
- The 2021 Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack briefly breached digital perimeter controls in the US fuel network. computing
Emergence
through: the boundary keeps others out while the thing remains inside, creating a protected condition.
- protected containment
- exclusion of external entities
- persistent integrity
Chain to foundations
as tree
- securityL6
- boundaryL2
- persistL1
- insideL5
- othersL2
- spaceL0 (shown above)
- timeL0 (shown above)
- patternL0 (shown above)
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- conditionL3
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (3)
Relations
| is-a | condition.state | is-a |