The Emergence Machine

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a pattern where each outcome becomes the cause that drives the same outcome again, tightening the same boundary until no change can happen without crossing a wall

vicious-cycle.stacked · forms: vicious circle, vicious cycle

ordinarily means: a situation where one problem leads to another, which makes the first problem worse, repeating endlessly

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Emergence

from: cycle dependence boundary drift parameter
through: self-reinforcing

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.relevanceL12 relevance.core: a parameter whose drift moves a walldistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinggoL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placenumberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placeenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.cycleL15 cycle.loop: drift of a parameter that returns to a previous state so the same path can occur againdriftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.carryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact and under control.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.offL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is thereoutsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryreturnL14 return.movement: to go back to a previous placecontactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.sideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.dependenceL11 dependence.condition: one window's walls set by another's parameters.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesnoneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thingmakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.backL13 back.spatial: a side of a thing that is part of its boundarystateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placewallL10 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.amountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numberwayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spacequantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spacepatternL0 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.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.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.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inlinksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingsmatterL1 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.othersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.connectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.occursL2 occurs.event: a change that is at some place during timeinsideL5 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.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeobjectL4 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.vicious cycleL16 vicious-cycle.stacked: a pattern where each outcome becomes the cause that drives the same outcome again, tightening the same boundary until no change can happen without crossing a wallnothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingmotionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.previousL1 previous.temporal: a thing that is before now in timetimeL0 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 fromvicious cycleL16vicious-cycle.stacked — a pattern where each outcome becomes the cause that drives the same outcome again, tightening the same boundary until nocycleL15cycle.loop — drift of a parameter that returns to a previous state so the same path can occur againdependenceL11dependence.condition — one window's walls set by another's parameters.boundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.driftL11drift.aimless — Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.parameterL4parameter.condition — A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.E0 concrete → E14 abstract

Provenance

author: phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.7 · source: folk phrase — stacked dependency