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when a thing that was here is now not here and its place is not here

Lost (adjective) means: when a thing that was here is now not here and its place is not here. It emerges from loss, off, change, space: when a thing is loss and is off, its place is not here. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 3, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

lost.state · forms: lose, loses, losing, lost

Examples

Emergence

from: loss off change space time
through: when a thing is loss and is off, its place is not here

Chain to foundations

offL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is therespaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.lossL2 loss.economic: When a thing that was here is not here after, there is a difference.lostL3 lost.state: when a thing that was here is now not here and its place is not here
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromlost the plotL15lost-the-plot.drift — A self-model that has changed without noticing, so the thing it models is no longer inside its window.lostL3lost.state — when a thing that was here is now not here and its place is not herelossL2loss.economic — When a thing that was here is not here after, there is a difference.offL2off.state — when a thing is not here, it is therechangeL1change.process — When a thing is not the same after as it was before.spaceL0space.extent — Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.timeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.

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lost the plotL15

Relations

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Provenance

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