The Emergence Machine

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people together follow shared rules that make their interactions

society.social · forms: societies, society

Examples

Emergence

from: people rules interaction follows make share
through: people follow rules in sequence, and through mutual change create structured interactions that persist.

Chain to foundations

changeL1 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.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinggoL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placegiveL7 give.transfer: to make a piece go to othersenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.lawL3 law.rule: a regular pattern that is what will happen when a thing is with another thingcontrolL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryfollowsL9 follows.sequential: to move after something in time with the same order as it happensrulesL9 rules.social: regular patterns that control how things are orderedentitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasrangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesinteractingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchingshareL8 share.distribution: a portion of a thing that is given to othersmakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.narrowL5 narrow.spatial: Having a small range between boundaries.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeportionL3 portion.share: a part of a thing that has its own boundarysettingL3 setting.contextual: A place and time where things happen, with patterns that stay the same through change.givenL7 given.premise: a thing that is information in a settingpatternL0 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.orderL8 order.arrangement: a parameter whose window is narrowwindowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.pieceL3 piece.portion: a part of a thing that has its own boundarysocietyL10 society.social: people together follow shared rules that make their interactionspartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.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.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.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundaryboundaryL2 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.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placestructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencesmotionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.regularL1 regular.frequency: a thing that is the same pattern again over timereceiveL6 receive.communication: to get something that comes to a placesmallL4 small.size: a thing that is less extent than most other thingstimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.groupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has pattern
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt frompoliticalL20political.governance — about how a government, law, and power are organised for a societysocietyL10society.social — people together follow shared rules that make their interactionspeopleL6people.social — a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchrulesL9rules.social — regular patterns that control how things are orderedinteractionL2interaction.process — When two things change each other.followsL9follows.sequential — to move after something in time with the same order as it happensmakeL4make.verb — Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.shareL8share.distribution — a portion of a thing that is given to othersE0 concrete → E14 abstract

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Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6