The Emergence Machine

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A model that includes only the parts that are common across many things, so the differences between them are not in the model.

Big picture (noun) means: A model that includes only the parts that are common across many things, so the differences between them are not in the model. It emerges from model, general, difference, part: emergence.novel_properties. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

big-picture.abstraction · forms: big picture

ordinarily means: The overall view or main idea of something.

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Emergence

from: model general difference part pattern
through: emergence.novel_properties

Chain to foundations

partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.putL3 put.placement: to move something into a placestructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.getL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youactL3 act.deed: do somethingbig pictureL15 big-picture.abstraction: A model that includes only the parts that are common across many things, so the differences between them are not in the model.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingsaysL8 says.speech: to make a message that other distinct entities getcomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.modelL9 model.representation: A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingslikeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.messageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entityothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencesmakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.generalL3 general.broad: a thing that is about many other thing and not about one thingpatternL0 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.

built frombig pictureL15big-picture.abstraction — A model that includes only the parts that are common across many things, so the differences between them are not in the modelL9model.representation — A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.generalL3general.broad — a thing that is about many other thing and not about one thingdifferenceL1difference.relation — When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.partL1part.relation — Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.patternL0pattern.regularity — That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.

Provenance

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