The Emergence Machine

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Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.

Flow (verb) means: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place. It emerges from motion, matter, part, space: Many parts of matter move together through space while maintaining a coherent pattern as a whole. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 3, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

flow.movement · forms: flow, flowed, flowing, flows

Examples

Emergence

from: motion matter part space
through: Many parts of matter move together through space while maintaining a coherent pattern as a whole.

Chain to foundations

spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.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.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.
full chain as text (16 steps)

Neighborhood

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

used by — 8 more not shownbuilt fromairL4air.material — A matter that flows in spacecascadeL4cascade.flow — A flow of matter that moves through one place and then another during time.currentL4current.fluid — a flow of matter or energy through a placedeviceL5device.tool — A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.electricityL6electricity.electrical — A flow of energy that happens when charged parts move through matter in a pattern.machineL6machine.constructed-system — A device made so that energy flows through a structure to do change and persist in a pattern.connectsL7connects.verb — When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.electricalL7electrical.electrical — about the flow of electricity through matterflowL3flow.movement — Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.motionL2motion.movement — Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.matterL1matter.substance — A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.partL1part.relation — Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.spaceL0space.extent — Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.

Used by (16)

airL4cascadeL4currentL4deviceL5electricityL6machineL6connectsL7electricalL7fluidL13gasL13metalL13plugL13waterL14channelL15riverL15trickle downL16

Relations

is-amotion.movementflow is collective motion

Provenance

author: hand · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 1.0