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things that are actions people do

Activities (noun) means: things that are actions people do. It emerges from action, people: people do the actions. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 7, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

activities.general · forms: activities, activity

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Emergence

from: action people
through: people do the actions

Chain to foundations

touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.interactingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchingactivitiesL7 activities.general: things that are actions people doboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.actionL4 action.deed: A change that is done by a thing.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.peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchdifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.workL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacehappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinggroupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.
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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

used bybuilt fromfacilitiesL10facilities.place — A place where equipment or service is provided for an activity.activitiesL7activities.general — things that are actions people doactionL4action.deed — A change that is done by a thing.peopleL6people.social — a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touch

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facilitiesL10

Provenance

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