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A thing whose reach a self model reads as set against its own walls.

Enemy (noun) means: A thing whose reach a self model reads as set against its own walls. It emerges from reach, self-model, read, set: Reading another's reach as aimed at one's own walls turns every move of the other into a possible wall moving; the reading, once held, is hard to update because the other's calm reads as waiting. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

enemy.against · forms: enemies, enemy

Examples

Emergence

from: reach self-model read set against wall
through: Reading another's reach as aimed at one's own walls turns every move of the other into a possible wall moving; the reading, once held, is hard to update because the other's calm reads as waiting.

Chain to foundations

changeL1 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 boundaryforceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionbroughtL6 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.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariespartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.putL3 put.placement: to move something into a placekeepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or stateenemyL15 enemy.against: A thing whose reach a self model reads as set against its own walls.againstL13 against.opposition: a thing that is different from another and does not go toward itcrossL4 cross.pass: To go through a boundary from one place to another.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.objectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.driftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.amountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numbercarryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact.subjectL5 subject.entity: a thing that a change process is about in an eventnothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingmodelL9 model.representation: A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.connectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.currentL1 current.present: Of the time that is now.holdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not movelikeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.reachL13 reach.action: Each window a thing can enter, and each wall it can set, by its own action.actL3 act.deed: do somethingpoint of no returnL9 point-of-no-return.irreversible: A wall in a parameter's window, beyond which the thing cannot persist even though its parts do.wallL8 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsboundaryL2 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 thingactionL4 action.deed: A change that is done by a thing.wayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spacesizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.setL9 set.fix: To make a wall or the value of a parameter stay in one place.saysL8 says.speech: to make a message that other distinct entities getself-modelL14 self-model.reflexive: A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.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.seeL6 see.visual: change when matter interacts with marks visible in space extentcontactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.readL7 read.information: when entities sees and makes informationhappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.eventL3 event.occurrence: a change that occurs in a place during a timegetL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youlinksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingssurfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.pointsL2 points.location: a part that is at a placequantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spacetimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfaceworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacepersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.closeL5 close.spatial: having little space between two thingsoffL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is theresetsL3 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.processL4 process.general: A set of changes that occur in something over time.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.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.valueL7 value.magnitude: The number a parameter has at a 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.reachL10 reach.spatial: to go to pointbigL2 big.size: Having much space; more space than another thing has.extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasnoneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thinglineL10 line.geometric: a set of points with regular arrangement in spacemessageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entitygoL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placecomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.regularL1 regular.frequency: a thing that is the same pattern again over timemarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.littleL4 little.size: has less space extent than most othersdirectionL11 direction.spatial: a line that a thing points to as it goesstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placenumberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placeoccursL2 occurs.event: a change that is at some place during timeinsideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarywindowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencespossibilityL12 possibility.potential: A window that can be reached from the current window without crossing a wall that is closed.enterL3 enter.spatial: to move into a place
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromfifth columnL17fifth-column.inside — A collective self that reads the walls on it as set by an out-group within its boundary: members read as acting for an eus versus themL17us-versus-them.split — A collective self that divides into an in-group and an out-group, reading the reach of the out-group as set against its enemyL15enemy.against — A thing whose reach a self model reads as set against its own walls.reachL13reach.action — Each window a thing can enter, and each wall it can set, by its own action.self-modelL14self-model.reflexive — A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.readL7read.information — when entities sees and makes informationsetL9set.fix — To make a wall or the value of a parameter stay in one place.againstL13against.opposition — a thing that is different from another and does not go toward itwallL8wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.

Used by (2)

fifth columnL17us versus themL17

Relations

contrasts-withally.alignedan ally's reach is read as working with one's own

Provenance

author: claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated · date: 2026-09-29 · confidence: 0.85 · source: schema/power-agency-phase.md