chance · random

drift with no feedback available that would determine its direction.

Chance (noun) means: drift with no feedback available that would determine its direction. It emerges from drift, available, direction: The absence of available feedback that could guide it combines with aimless drift and an undefined direction to constitute chance as randomness. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• Cosmic microwave background radiation shows a near-uniform temperature of 2.7 K across the sky, with minute fluctuations from quantum fluctuations in the early universe. physics
• The genetic makeup of the Tristan da Cunha island population includes a high incidence of asthma due to the founder effect from a small number of settlers. biology
• Bitcoin’s proof-of-work system adjusts mining difficulty every 2016 blocks to maintain a 10-minute average block time despite fluctuating network hash rates. computing

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

Provenance