{
  "id": "symbiosis.mutual",
  "term": "symbiosis",
  "sense": "mutual",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "living systems",
  "domain": "biology",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "Two systems each holding the other's window open.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "hold.physical",
      "open.spatial",
      "system.organized",
      "window.range",
      "maintenance.upkeep"
    ],
    "interaction": "Each system physically holds the other's boundary open, maintaining access to the parameter range that allows persistence.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "reciprocal persistence",
      "mutual accessibility",
      "sustained co-availability"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Coral polyps and zooxanthellae algae maintain photosynthesis and nutrient exchange in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Internet Archive preserves public web pages daily, enabling access to deleted or altered content.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1955 Austria State Treaty restored sovereignty while guaranteeing minority rights for Slovenes and Hungarians.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "parasitism.systemic",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "In parasitism, one system narrows the other's window without reciprocal upkeep."
    },
    {
      "id": "ecosystem.interdependent",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "Symbiosis contributes to ecosystem resilience through co-regulated parameters."
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "symbiosis"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "windows.opening (L10) was added because the metaphor of 'window' in 'window open' relies on the structure of an opening that enables passage, which is not captured by open.spatial alone. hold.physical"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-symbiosis.mutual"
}