The Emergence Machine

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To have more matter in a place over time.

Grow (verb) means: To have more matter in a place over time. It emerges from matter, time, growth: Matter persists through time and accumulates in one place, producing a larger form. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 3, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

grow.biological · forms: grew, grow, growing, grown, grows

Emergence

from: matter time growth
through: Matter persists through time and accumulates in one place, producing a larger form.

Chain to foundations

energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.growL3 grow.biological: To have more matter in a place over time.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.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.growthL2 growth.development: more matter in a place over timematterL1 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 fromgrowL3grow.biological — To have more matter in a place over time.matterL1matter.substance — A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.timeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.growthL2growth.development — more matter in a place over time

Relations

enableslive.biologicalLiving things can grow
is-aincrease.quantityGrow is a form of increase in living matter

Provenance

author: openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6