# start (action)

to make a change begin

- Computed level: L5 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: action  ·  Arena: lexicon

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [change](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-change.process), [source](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-source.origin), [make](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-make.verb)

**Through:** the act of bringing about a change at its source through the coming together of parts into a persistent pattern

**Novel properties:**
- initiation of change
- causal onset at source
- persistence of new state

## Examples
- In 1947, Bell Labs scientists observed the first controlled amplification of electrical signals in a germanium point-contact transistor. *(physics)*
- The 2008 financial crisis began when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy on September 15, triggering global market collapses. *(economics)*
- The Human Genome Project officially launched on October 1, 1990, initiating coordinated DNA sequencing across multiple international labs. *(biology)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-start.action*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-start.action.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*