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 7, 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

partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.definesL6 defines.verb: To make a pattern that establishes the boundary of what a thing is by how it differs from others.structureL2 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.settingL3 setting.contextual: A place and time where things happen, with patterns that stay the same through change.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.energyL0 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.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.establishesL5 establishes.verb: To make a pattern that persists in space and time by setting its boundaries through interaction.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.sideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.holesL7 holes.empty-regions: Spaces where matter is not, but which are within or surrounded by matter that defines a boundary.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.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.surroundedL4 surrounded.enclosed: A thing is in a space where boundaries are on all sides around it.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 fromplugL8plug.electrical — A device made to be in a hole of another device, so that through touch energy can flow between the two.socketL9socket.electrical — A device with holes that connects a plug to electricity so that a machine can have energy.unoccupiedL9unoccupied.spatial — a place where no thing occupieswindowsL10windows.opening — a structure that makes a boundary hole in a surface and includes glassgolfL15golf.sport — a game where people use a tool to move an object toward a hole with as few actions as possiblethreadL18thread.material — a slender strand formed from a small portion of material, capable of being drawn through openings to bind partsholesL7holes.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.definesL6defines.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)

plugL8socketL9unoccupiedL9windowsL10golfL15threadL18

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