agency · capacity
Ask PrometheusAgency (noun) means: the ability to cause action. It emerges from ability, action, cause: the ability and the action together, when linked by a cause, produce change through intentional direction. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 20, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The Mars rover Perseverance drilled into Jezero Crater's bedrock on August 6, 2021, capturing a sample for future return to Earth. engineering
- In 2008, the Federal Reserve invoked emergency powers to lend $85 billion to AIG, altering financial market trajectories. economics
- CRISPR-Cas9 edited the HBB gene in hematopoietic stem cells to cure sickle cell disease in a 2023 clinical trial. biology
Emergence
through: the ability and the action together, when linked by a cause, produce change through intentional direction
- intentional change
- directed causation
- initiated effect
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (360 steps)
- agencyL20
- abilityL19
- energyL0
- regularL1
- processL4
- capacityL11
- enoughL8
- patternL0
- potentialL18
- openL17
- unoccupiedL9
- windowL7
- resultsL11
- changeL1
- differenceL1
- actionL4
- causeL3
- changeL1
- interactionL2
- happenL2
- abilityL19
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| is-a | ability.capacity | is-a |
| abstracts | action.deed | abstracts |