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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 12, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

chaos.unpredictable-drift · forms: chaos

Examples

Emergence

from: drift parameter window wall available later value current
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

valueL7 value.magnitude: The number a parameter has at a time.nothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.connectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundarycurrentL1 current.present: Of the time that is now.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.noneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thinghappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundarieslaterL5 later.temporal: after nowpartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.actL3 act.deed: do somethinggetL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youlinksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingsavailableL7 available.accessible: free for get or use nowmakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.goL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placedeviceL5 device.tool: A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.wallL8 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.freeL3 free.unconstrained: When matter is not bound by a boundary, it can move in space and remain.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placequantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spacenumberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placeboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinginsideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarytimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.chaosL12 chaos.unpredictable-drift: drift whose later values cannot be predicted from current ones at the resolution availablecarryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact.useL6 use.application: to make something change by acting on itpersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.wayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spaceoffL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is thereparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.driftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.objectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.futureL4 future.temporal: the part of time that is after nowinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeamountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numbersizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is intouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.possibleL3 possible.potential: that can happenpatternL0 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 fromchaosL12chaos.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.wallL8wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.availableL7available.accessible — free for get or use nowlaterL5later.temporal — after nowvalueL7value.magnitude — The number a parameter has at a time.currentL1current.present — Of the time that is now.

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