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drift whose later values cannot be predicted from current ones at the resolution available

Chaos (noun) means: drift whose later values cannot be predicted from current ones at the resolution available. It emerges from drift, parameter, window, wall: The components together form a drifting parameter that changes without direction, bounded by range limits, where future values cannot be determined from present states due to limited access to sufficient resolution. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

chaos.unpredictable-drift · forms: chaos

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Emergence

from: drift parameter window wall available current later value
through: The components together form a drifting parameter that changes without direction, bounded by range limits, where future values cannot be determined from present states due to limited access to sufficient resolution.

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.futureL4 future.temporal: the part of time that is after nowdriftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.helpL5 help.assistance: to make another thing change when it can not change by itselfcontactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.qualityL4 quality.value: a state that is a thing more distinct or less distinctpoliteL11 polite.social: state that respect otherschaosL15 chaos.unpredictable-drift: drift whose later values cannot be predicted from current ones at the resolution availableflowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.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.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.getL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youdifferenceL1 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.amountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numberstructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.connectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.linksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingsavailableL7 available.accessible: free for get or use nowbroughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.goL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placevalueL13 value.worth: how something's distinctness or utility determines its pricenothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingsizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inlaterL5 later.temporal: after nowwayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spacechangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundarymarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.priceL8 price.economic: the piece of a thing that be given in an interactionstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placepartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarycontrolL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.wallL14 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.noneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thingfreeL5 free.unconstrained: When matter is not bound by a boundary or control, it can move in space and remain.deviceL5 device.tool: A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.quantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spaceconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placegoodL12 good.moral: that which helps and is more than does not helpuseL6 use.application: to make something change with a controlobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.offL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is theretimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.possibleL3 possible.potential: that can happendistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingrangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariescarryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact and under control.currentL4 current.fluid: a flow of matter or energy through a placenumberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placeothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromchaosL15chaos.unpredictable-drift — drift whose later values cannot be predicted from current ones at the resolution availabledriftL11drift.aimless — Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.parameterL4parameter.condition — A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.windowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.wallL14wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.availableL7available.accessible — free for get or use nowcurrentL4current.fluid — a flow of matter or energy through a placelaterL5later.temporal — after nowvalueL13value.worth — how something's distinctness or utility determines its price

Relations

is-adrift.aimlesschaos is a kind of drift
contrasts-withparameter.conditionchaos contrasts with regulated parameter change

Provenance

author: retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.8 · source: Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md