The Emergence Machine

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a place where matter is kept for later use

storage.physical · forms: storage, storages

Examples

Emergence

from: matter container space time keep later use
through: the container maintains matter in a spatial extent over time, enabling its future application

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.keepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or statelaterL5 later.temporal: after nowenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.possibleL3 possible.potential: that can happencontrolL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.storageL7 storage.physical: a place where matter is kept for later useinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.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 placedeviceL5 device.tool: A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.containerL6 container.object: a thing that has a boundary and an inside where other matter can be keptcomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.spaceL0 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.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.useL6 use.application: to make something change with a controlothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.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.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.futureL4 future.temporal: the part of time that is after nowtimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromstorageL7storage.physical — a place where matter is kept for later usematterL1matter.substance — A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.containerL6container.object — a thing that has a boundary and an inside where other matter can be keptspaceL0space.extent — Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.timeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.keepL5keep.maintenance — to make something persist in a place or statelaterL5later.temporal — after nowuseL6use.application — to make something change with a controlE0 concrete → E14 abstract

Relations

is-acontainer.objecta storage is a kind of container

Provenance

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