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when a whole moves beyond the sum of its parts because interaction among parts creates more copies than maintenance can limit

Going viral (noun) means: when a whole moves beyond the sum of its parts because interaction among parts creates more copies than maintenance can limit. It emerges from interaction, copy, maintenance, whole: word-of-mouth.excess. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

going-viral.excess · forms: go viral, going viral

ordinarily means: something spreading quickly and widely through a population

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Emergence

from: interaction copy maintenance whole greater than the sum
through: word-of-mouth.excess

Chain to foundations

windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.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.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.putL3 put.placement: to move something into a placerangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesgoing viralL15 going-viral.excess: when a whole moves beyond the sum of its parts because interaction among parts creates more copies than maintenance can limitstructureL2 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.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfaceinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarypersistL1 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.copyL4 copy.replication: a thing that is similar to another thing and is put in a placeenergyL0 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.similarL2 similar.comparative: when the pattern of one thing is the same as the pattern of another thingmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.maintenanceL14 maintenance.upkeep: Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spaceparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.wholeL3 whole.complete: All the parts of somethingkeepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or stateconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.forceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionmotionL2 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.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.holdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not moveothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.greater than the sumL10 greater-than-the-sum.excess: a whole whose boundary contains interaction among parts that changes the state of the whole in a way not possible in any part alonearrangementL3 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.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromgoing viralL15going-viral.excess — when a whole moves beyond the sum of its parts because interaction among parts creates more copies than maintenance can interactionL2interaction.process — When two things change each other.copyL4copy.replication — a thing that is similar to another thing and is put in a placemaintenanceL14maintenance.upkeep — Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.wholeL3whole.complete — All the parts of somethinggreater than the sumL10greater-than-the-sum.excess — a whole whose boundary contains interaction among parts that changes the state of the whole in a way not possible in any

Provenance

author: phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.7 · source: folk phrase — the whole exceeding its parts