The Emergence Machine

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a meaning that is in mind about something not here

Ideas (noun) means: a meaning that is in mind about something not here. It emerges from mind, meaning, mean: the mind forms a meaning about something that is not here. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 23, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

ideas.cognitive · forms: idea, ideas

Examples

Emergence

from: mind meaning mean
through: the mind forms a meaning about something that is not here

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.meaningL8 meaning.significance: a pattern of knowledge that differs from a stateknowledgeL7 knowledge.cognitive: information that people have about somethingdifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.persistL1 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.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.interactingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchingmeanL9 mean.signify: to be a significance of a thingdistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingmarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsgroupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternstateL2 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.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.mindL22 mind.cognitive: the mental ability of a human to think, feel, and rememberpeopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchothersL2 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.informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencestouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.ideasL23 ideas.cognitive: a meaning that is in mind about something not herepatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
full chain as text (79 steps)

Neighborhood

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

built fromideasL23ideas.cognitive — a meaning that is in mind about something not heremindL22mind.cognitive — the mental ability of a human to think, feel, and remembermeaningL8meaning.significance — a pattern of knowledge that differs from a statemeanL9mean.signify — to be a significance of a thing

Relations

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Provenance

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