The Emergence Machine

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A part of the boundary of a thing.

Side (noun) means: A part of the boundary of a thing. It emerges from part, boundary: A boundary divided into parts, each part facing one region of space. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 3, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

side.surface · forms: side, sides

Examples

Emergence

from: part boundary
through: A boundary divided into parts, each part facing one region of space.

Chain to foundations

differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.sideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.
full chain as text (11 steps)

Neighborhood

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

used by — 6 more not shownbuilt fromsurroundedL4surrounded.enclosed — A thing is in a space where boundaries are on all sides around it.acrossL13across.spatial — from one side of a space to the other sidebackL13back.spatial — a side of a thing that is part of its boundarycollapseL13collapse.failure — A wall crossing where the parameter drifts outside the window and nothing on the far side inherits the function of the texteriorL13exterior.spatial — the side of a thing that is not insidefrontL13front.spatial — the side of a thing that is toward the first directionnorthL13north.direction — the side of a place that is up on a mapsouthL13south.direction — the side of a place that is down in the usual map arrangement of spacesideL3side.surface — A part of the boundary of a thing.partL1part.relation — Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.boundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.

Used by (14)

surroundedL4acrossL13backL13collapseL13exteriorL13frontL13northL13southL13topL13westL14leftL15on the same pageL15pageL15bayL16

Provenance

author: hand · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 1.0