The Emergence Machine

value · worth

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how something's distinctness or utility determines its price

value.worth · forms: value, valued, values, valuing

Examples

Emergence

from: quality price good use
through: the degree of distinctness and usefulness of a thing together inform how much of a price it can command

Chain to foundations

changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.controlL4 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.interactionL2 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.patternL0 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.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.qualityL4 quality.value: a state that is a thing more distinct or less distinctmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.priceL8 price.economic: the piece of a thing that be given in an interactionhelpL5 help.assistance: to make another thing change when it can not change by itselfpersistL1 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.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.valueL9 value.worth: how something's distinctness or utility determines its pricemotionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.goodL6 good.moral: that which helps and is more than does not helppoliteL3 polite.social: state that respect otherstimeL0 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.

used bybuilt fromcheapL10cheap.economic — lower in price than what is typically considered its worthimportantL10important.significance — an item that has more meaning and more value than most itemsspecialL10special.quality — A thing that is different from others and is valued.groundL11ground.level — a parameter whose window is narrower than the windows of other parameters it sets, and whose value determines the walls overloadL11overload.capacity — a parameter whose value is beyond the wall of its windowchaosL12chaos.unpredictable-drift — drift whose later values cannot be predicted from current ones at the resolution availablecreditL12credit.financial — a value that is added to an account and is a sign that people gave somethingextremeL12extreme.position — A parameter whose value is near a wall, but not so near that the wall's presence dominates.valueL9value.worth — how something's distinctness or utility determines its pricequalityL4quality.value — a state that is a thing more distinct or less distinctpriceL8price.economic — the piece of a thing that be given in an interactiongoodL6good.moral — that which helps and is more than does not helpuseL6use.application — to make something change with a controlE0 concrete → E14 abstract

Used by (14)

cheapL10importantL10specialL10groundL11overloadL11chaosL12creditL12extremeL12wasteL12capitalL17pokerL17necessityL18ripeningL18goldL23

Relations

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Provenance

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