The Emergence Machine

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on a location that is above and touching another location

upon.spatial · forms: upon

Examples

Emergence

from: above touch location
through: When a location is both above and touching another location, the relationship is expressed as upon.

Chain to foundations

spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.aboveL5 above.spatial: higher in space than another thingpartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.riseL3 rise.movement: When a thing moves up in space during time.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.pointsL2 points.location: a part that is at a placelocationL12 location.spatial: a point where a thing is in spaceenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.uponL13 upon.spatial: on a location that is above and touching another locationbigL2 big.size: Having much space; more space than another thing has.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.highL4 high.spatial: When a thing is more up in space than most other things.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.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.

built fromuponL13upon.spatial — on a location that is above and touching another locationaboveL5above.spatial — higher in space than another thingtouchL3touch.together — When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.locationL12location.spatial — a point where a thing is in spaceE0 concrete → E14 abstract

Relations

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Provenance

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