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play that makes people experience good

Fun (noun) means: play that makes people experience good. It emerges from play, good, experience, make: When play occurs together with a sense of good, it creates a pleasurable experience. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 13, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

fun.leisure · forms: fun, funs

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Emergence

from: play good experience make people
through: When play occurs together with a sense of good, it creates a pleasurable experience.

Chain to foundations

touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.smallL4 small.size: a thing that is less extent than most other thingsinteractingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchinghelpL5 help.assistance: to make another thing change when it can not change by itselffollowsL9 follows.sequential: to move after something in time with the same order as it happensboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.actionL4 action.deed: A change that is done by a thing.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.politeL11 polite.social: state that respect otherssetsL3 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.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchgetL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youdifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.organizedL3 organized.structure: a state where parts are in a regular pattern that persists through timeprocessL4 process.general: A set of changes that occur in something over time.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is ineventL3 event.occurrence: a change that occurs in a place during a timechangeL1 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 boundaryplayL12 play.game: a game that is done not for workfunL13 fun.leisure: play that makes people experience goodgameL11 game.playful: an organized sequence of actions where participants follow a structure to achieve a desired outcomestateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeexperienceL12 experience.cognitive: a condition of a subject that results when an event occurs to the subjectworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacehappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.orderL8 order.arrangement: a parameter whose window is narrowpartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.outcomeL10 outcome.result: the state that follows after a changeregularL1 regular.frequency: a thing that is the same pattern again over timeinsideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarycomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsresultsL11 results.outcome: an outcome that is the difference that follows a changeconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placegoodL12 good.moral: that which helps and is more than does not helpsubjectL5 subject.entity: a thing that a change process is about in an eventoccursL2 occurs.event: a change that is at some place during timespaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.objectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.narrowL5 narrow.spatial: Having a small range between boundaries.needL5 need.psychological: a state that diverges from a persistent condition of an objectdistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingrangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesgroupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patterngoalL6 goal.purpose: a needed state that differs from a stateothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromfunL13fun.leisure — play that makes people experience goodplayL12play.game — a game that is done not for workgoodL12good.moral — that which helps and is more than does not helpexperienceL12experience.cognitive — a condition of a subject that results when an event occurs to the subjectmakeL4make.verb — Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.peopleL6people.social — a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touch

Relations

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Provenance

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