like · similarity

When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.

Like (verb) means: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing. It emerges from pattern, others: Two things compare their patterns and find them the same. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 3, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• Density wave theory likens a galaxy's spiral arms to a traffic jam: stars, like cars, crowd together passing through, then move on. astronomy
• The branching veins of a leaf look like a river system seen from above, small channels joining into larger ones. nature

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

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