The Emergence Machine

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to make something persist in a place or state

Keep (verb) means: to make something persist in a place or state. It emerges from persist, control, make, space: control directs the persistence of something across space and time, constraining its state through active maintenance. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 5, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

keep.maintenance · forms: keep, keeping, keeps, kept

Examples

Emergence

from: persist control make space state
through: control directs the persistence of something across space and time, constraining its state through active maintenance.

Chain to foundations

energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.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.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.keepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or statestateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placepartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.controlL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.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.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.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.
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Neighborhood

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

used by — 24 more not shownbuilt fromcaseL6case.container — A piece that bounds something and keeps it inside.containerL6container.object — a thing that has a boundary and an inside where other matter can be keptprivateL6private.social — not for others, kept inside its own boundarysaveL6save.preservation — to keep an item so it is not a lossreservedL7reserved.allocation — a place that is kept for a person during a timestorageL7storage.physical — a place where matter is kept for later usesuppliesL7supplies.resource — things of matter that are kept for use in an actionfilesL10files.digital — a piece of data with an arrangement that is kept in digital formkeepL5keep.maintenance — to make something persist in a place or statepersistL1persist.continue — To be the same through time.controlL4control.ability — A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.makeL4make.verb — Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.spaceL0space.extent — Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.stateL2state.condition — a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a place

Used by (32)

caseL6containerL6privateL6saveL6reservedL7storageL7suppliesL7filesL10recordsL11holdL13constraintL15healthyL15lifeL15precariousL15storeL16breaking the iceL17denialL18elephant in the roomL18corruptionL19factor of safetyL19golden handcuffsL19harmonyL19insuranceL19integrityL19perverse incentiveL19proportionL19bankL20conscienceL20persistenceL20protectionL20memoryL21brain drainL22

Relations

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Provenance

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