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A flow of matter that moves through one place and then another during time.

Cascade (noun) means: A flow of matter that moves through one place and then another during time. It emerges from flow, time: Flow moves through space over time, and time allows each part of the flow to follow the previous, creating a sequence. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 4, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

cascade.flow · forms: cascade, cascaded, cascades, cascading

Emergence

from: flow time
through: Flow moves through space over time, and time allows each part of the flow to follow the previous, creating a sequence.

Chain to foundations

cascadeL4 cascade.flow: A flow of matter that moves through one place and then another during time.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.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.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.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromcascadeL4cascade.flow — A flow of matter that moves through one place and then another during time.flowL3flow.movement — Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.timeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.

Relations

is-amotion.movementcascade is a kind of motion

Provenance

author: openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6