live · biological

to be a matter that persists through time and can change

Live (verb) means: to be a matter that persists through time and can change. It emerges from matter, persist, change, time: matter persists as a continuous entity while undergoing changes across time. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 2, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• A tardigrade survives in cryptobiosis for 30 years in Antarctic moss, resuming metabolism when rehydrated. biology
• The Voyager 1 probe continues transmitting data after 45 years, its systems degrading but functional. engineering
• The Sun has fused hydrogen into helium for 4.6 billion years, its plasma evolving through fusion and gravity. astrophysics

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

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