The Emergence Machine

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a fact that remains inside the real window but stays outside the wall of the group's self-model

Open secret (noun) means: a fact that remains inside the real window but stays outside the wall of the group's self-model. It emerges from fact, real, window, wall: the group's self-model sets a wall that excludes the fact from its statements. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

open-secret.silence · forms: open secret

ordinarily means: something many people know but is officially not acknowledged

Emergence

from: fact real window wall collective self-model persist outside
through: the group's self-model sets a wall that excludes the fact from its statements

Chain to foundations

touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.saysL8 says.speech: to make a message that other distinct entities getactL3 act.deed: do somethingmessageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entityinformationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencescontactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.forceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionfactL4 fact.truth: a thing that is real and truewindowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.likeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.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.getL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to yourealL2 real.actual: a thing that is in space and persists through timepersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.holdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not movestructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.modelL9 model.representation: A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.processL4 process.general: A set of changes that occur in something over time.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.trueL3 true.accurate: to be real and justeventL3 event.occurrence: a change that occurs in a place during a timejustL2 just.exact: that which does not differ from the thing it is aboutchangeL1 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 statecollectiveL3 collective.group: A pattern of others that are together in a place and change each other over time.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundarymarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.workL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacehappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.stateL2 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.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarycontrolL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.open secretL15 open-secret.silence: a fact that remains inside the real window but stays outside the wall of the group's self-modelpatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.wallL14 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfaceentitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.subjectL5 subject.entity: a thing that a change process is about in an eventoccursL2 occurs.event: a change that is at some place during timespaceL0 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.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingrangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesself-modelL14 self-model.reflexive: A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.putL3 put.placement: to move something into a placeothersL2 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.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromsocial capitalL20social-capital.resource — a collective resource of trust and obligation that remains in a window of silence, providing control without ever being open secretL15open-secret.silence — a fact that remains inside the real window but stays outside the wall of the group's self-modelfactL4fact.truth — a thing that is real and truerealL2real.actual — a thing that is in space and persists through timewindowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.wallL14wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.collectiveL3collective.group — A pattern of others that are together in a place and change each other over time.self-modelL14self-model.reflexive — A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.persistL1persist.continue — To be the same through time.outsideL6outside.spatial — the space that is not inside a thing's boundary

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author: phrases:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.7 · source: folk phrase — what the group will not say