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a meeting where many people meet to have a discussion

Conference (noun) means: a meeting where many people meet to have a discussion. It emerges from meeting, discussion: the people meet together and hold a discussion. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 14, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

conference.social · forms: conference, conferenced, conferences, conferencing

Examples

Emergence

from: meeting discussion
through: the people meet together and hold a discussion

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.visualL7 visual.perceptual: information that is a set of marks on a surfaceshareL8 share.distribution: a portion of a thing that is given to othersspaceL0 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 controlmeetingL7 meeting.social: people together in a place at a time to interactmeaningL8 meaning.significance: a pattern of knowledge that differs from a stateknowledgeL7 knowledge.cognitive: information that people have about somethingstructureL2 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.settingL3 setting.contextual: A place and time where things happen, with patterns that stay the same through change.seeL6 see.visual: change when matter interacts with marks visible in space extentflowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.signL11 sign.symbolic: A visual mark that conveys meaning through regularity of form.givenL7 given.premise: a thing that is information in a settinggiveL7 give.transfer: to make a piece go to otherspersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.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.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.getL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youmatterL1 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 touchingreceiveL6 receive.communication: to get something that comes to a placemeanL9 mean.signify: to be a significance of a thingdistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinglanguageL12 language.communication: a structure of signs with meaning arranged in regular patternscomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasentitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsgroupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeconferenceL14 conference.social: a meeting where many people meet to have a discussionpieceL3 piece.portion: a part of a thing that has its own boundaryboundaryL2 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.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.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.discussionL13 discussion.social: a interaction where people use language to share informationothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.deviceL5 device.tool: A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencestimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.portionL3 portion.share: a part of a thing that has its own boundarygoL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placetouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.regularL1 regular.frequency: a thing that is the same pattern again over timearrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.showL7 show.visual: to make something be seen
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Neighborhood

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

built fromconferenceL14conference.social — a meeting where many people meet to have a discussionmeetingL7meeting.social — people together in a place at a time to interactdiscussionL13discussion.social — a interaction where people use language to share information

Relations

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Provenance

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