The Emergence Machine

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A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.

self-model.reflexive · forms: self-model, self-models

Examples

Emergence

from: model hold subject
through: A compressing system turns its compression on itself and acts on the result.

Chain to foundations

likeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.holdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not movechangeL1 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.messageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entitydistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingkeepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or stateenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.controlL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.actL3 act.deed: do somethingmarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.self-modelL14 self-model.reflexive: A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeprocessL4 process.general: A set of changes that occur in something over time.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.eventL3 event.occurrence: a change that occurs in a place during a timepartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.putL3 put.placement: to move something into a placesubjectL5 subject.entity: a thing that a change process is about in an eventmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.modelL9 model.representation: A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.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.getL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youothersL2 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.occursL2 occurs.event: a change that is at some place during timeboundaryL2 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.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfacemotionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.workL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacesaysL8 says.speech: to make a message that other distinct entities getinformationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencestimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.forceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motion
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromauthenticityL15authenticity.state — a self-model whose window overlaps the range the system actually occupiescomfort zoneL15comfort-zone.named — the performance window, named from inside.despairL15despair.state — a self-model representing every parameter as having a window that is closed, whether or not the actual parameters are widoubtL15doubt.epistemic — a model reporting its own range as wide, which is why it tracks accuracy rather than opposing it.hindsight is twenty twentyL15hindsight-is-twenty-twenty.retrospection — A self-model that was wrong during the event becomes accurate when the past is observed, revealing that the model could hopeL15hope.emotional — a self-model representing a currently closed window as reachableidentityL15identity.self — A self-model that stays within its own window while the parameters it represents undergo drift.legacy codeL15legacy-code.unmeasured — a system whose parameter window no living maintainer has measured, still inside it, maintained without knowing where itsself-modelL14self-model.reflexive — A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.modelL9model.representation — A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.holdL13hold.physical — keep thing with touch and force so it does not movesubjectL5subject.entity — a thing that a change process is about in an eventE0 concrete → E14 abstract

Used by (22)

authenticityL15comfort zoneL15despairL15doubtL15hindsight is twenty twentyL15hopeL15identityL15legacy codeL15lost the plotL15mission creepL15prideL15responsibilityL15self fulfilling prophecyL15shameL15team spiritL15blind spotL16gut feelingL16regretL16sanity checkL16the three tiersL19the way we have always done itL19ahead of its timeL23

Relations

is-amodel.representationa self-model is a model with a reflexive subject

Provenance

author: hand · date: 2026-07-31 · confidence: 1.0 · source: Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md