The Emergence Machine

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the big set of places and things that are in space through time

world.place · forms: world, worlds

Examples

Emergence

from: matter space time big sets
through: matter persists in space and changes through time, grouped into a large collection of distinct but related places and things.

Chain to foundations

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.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.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.worldL4 world.place: the big set of places and things that are in space through timeboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.bigL2 big.size: Having much space; more space than another thing has.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.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.

used bybuilt fromglobalL5global.geographic — it is about all worldasianL7asian.geographic — that which is of a big region of the worldgeographicL7geographic.spatial — about a region or area of the worldinternationalL7international.social — about many people in many places of the worldnationalL9national.political — about a people set and the place they occupydespairL15despair.state — a self-model representing every parameter as having a window that is closed, whether or not the actual parameters are wisunL21sun.celestial — big star that provides light for the worldworldL4world.place — the big set of places and things that are in space through timematterL1matter.substance — A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.spaceL0space.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.bigL2big.size — Having much space; more space than another thing has.setsL3sets.grouped — A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about themE0 concrete → E14 abstract

Used by (7)

globalL5asianL7geographicL7internationalL7nationalL9despairL15sunL21

Relations

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Provenance

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