The Emergence Machine

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A part of the boundary of a thing.

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.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.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.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromsurroundedL4surrounded.enclosed — A thing is in a space where boundaries are on all sides around it.backL13back.spatial — a side of a thing that is part of its boundaryexteriorL13exterior.spatial — the side of a thing that is not insidenorthL13north.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 spacetopL13top.upper — the part of a thing that is on the side that is upacrossL14across.spatial — from one side of a space to the other sidecollapseL14collapse.failure — A wall crossing where the parameter drifts outside the window and nothing on the far side inherits the function of the tsideL3side.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.E0 concrete → E14 abstract

Used by (13)

surroundedL4backL13exteriorL13northL13southL13topL13acrossL14collapseL14bayL15frontL15westL15leftL16pageL16

Provenance

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