The Emergence Machine

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Spaces where matter is not, but which are within or surrounded by matter that defines a boundary.

Holes (noun) means: Spaces where matter is not, but which are within or surrounded by matter that defines a boundary. It emerges from space, boundary, matter, defines: Matter arranges to form boundaries around regions of space, excluding matter from within them. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 12, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

holes.empty-regions · forms: hole, holes

Examples

Emergence

from: space boundary matter defines surrounded
through: Matter arranges to form boundaries around regions of space, excluding matter from within them.

Chain to foundations

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.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.setL9 set.fix: To make a wall or the value of a parameter stay in one place.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 boundaryholesL12 holes.empty-regions: Spaces where matter is not, but which are within or surrounded by matter that defines a boundary.establishesL10 establishes.verb: To make a pattern that persists in space and time by setting its boundaries through interaction.sideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.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.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.definesL11 defines.verb: To make a pattern that establishes the boundary of what a thing is by how it differs from others.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.wallL8 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.stateL2 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 placeboundaryL2 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 thinginsideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarytimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.objectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.surroundedL4 surrounded.enclosed: A thing is in a space where boundaries are on all sides around it.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed 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.

used bybuilt fromgolfL13golf.sport — a game where people use a tool to move an object toward a hole with as few actions as possibleplugL13plug.electrical — A device made to be in a hole of another device, so that through touch energy can flow between the two.windowsL13windows.opening — a structure that makes a boundary hole in a surface and includes glasssocketL14socket.electrical — A device with holes that connects a plug to electricity so that a machine can have energy.unoccupiedL14unoccupied.spatial — a place where no thing occupiesthreadL18thread.material — a slender strand formed from a small portion of material, capable of being drawn through openings to bind partsholesL12holes.empty-regions — Spaces where matter is not, but which are within or surrounded by matter that defines a boundary.spaceL0space.extent — Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.boundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.matterL1matter.substance — A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.definesL11defines.verb — To make a pattern that establishes the boundary of what a thing is by how it differs from others.surroundedL4surrounded.enclosed — A thing is in a space where boundaries are on all sides around it.

Used by (6)

golfL13plugL13windowsL13socketL14unoccupiedL14threadL18

Relations

enablessocket.electricalholes allow plugs to come into contact with electricity
contrasts-withboundary.limitholes are places where a boundary is interrupted

Provenance

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