The Emergence Machine

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a business of people working together

Company (noun) means: a business of people working together. It emerges from business, people, work: people do work in a business structure. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 9, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

company.economic · forms: companies, company

Examples

Emergence

from: business people work
through: people do work in a business structure

Chain to foundations

partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.controlL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.useL6 use.application: to make something change with a controlstructureL2 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.companyL9 company.economic: a business of people working togetherflowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.businessL8 business.economic: a set of make and use interactions that persist for profitpersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.profitL7 profit.economic: a difference where more is than less after make and usesetsL3 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.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.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.interactingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchingworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacedistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingcomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsgroupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternboundaryL2 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.peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchhappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.othersL2 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.deviceL5 device.tool: A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.makeL4 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.patternL0 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.

used bybuilt fromstaffL10staff.people — people who do work for a companycorporateL11corporate.business — of a companycorporationL11corporation.business — a company that is a legal distinct entity from its memberscompanyL9company.economic — a business of people working togetherbusinessL8business.economic — a set of make and use interactions that persist for profitpeopleL6people.social — a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchworkL3work.effort — a change that happens when energy moves something through space

Used by (3)

staffL10corporateL11corporationL11

Relations

is-abusiness.economicis-a

Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6