The Emergence Machine

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a thing that is similar to another thing and is put in a place

Copy (noun) means: a thing that is similar to another thing and is put in a place. It emerges from similar, put, space: similar and put together make a thing that is like the other in a location. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 4, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

copy.replication · forms: copied, copies, copy, copying

Examples

Emergence

from: similar put space
through: similar and put together make a thing that is like the other in a location

Chain to foundations

copyL4 copy.replication: a thing that is similar to another thing and is put in a placeputL3 put.placement: to move something into a placespaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.similarL2 similar.comparative: when the pattern of one thing is the same as the pattern of another thingtimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
full chain as text (14 steps)

Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromdoubleL5double.quantity — make another thing that is a second of the firstgoing viralL15going-viral.excess — when a whole moves beyond the sum of its parts because interaction among parts creates more copies than maintenance can printerL17printer.tool — a device that creates copies of digital content on papercopyL4copy.replication — a thing that is similar to another thing and is put in a placesimilarL2similar.comparative — when the pattern of one thing is the same as the pattern of another thingputL3put.placement — to move something into a placespaceL0space.extent — Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.

Used by (3)

doubleL5going viralL15printerL17

Provenance

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