The Emergence Machine

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A window that can be reached from the current window without crossing a wall that is closed.

Possibility (noun) means: A window that can be reached from the current window without crossing a wall that is closed. It emerges from window, wall, parameter, drift: The components together describe how unimpeded change along a parameter can allow movement from one bounded state to another through an open boundary. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 14, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

possibility.potential · forms: possibilities, possibility

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Emergence

from: window wall parameter drift close cross current reach
through: The components together describe how unimpeded change along a parameter can allow movement from one bounded state to another through an open boundary.

Chain to foundations

windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.littleL4 little.size: has less space extent than most otherscontrolL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariespossibilityL14 possibility.potential: A window that can be reached from the current window without crossing a wall that is closed.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inwallL10 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarypersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.offL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is theresetsL3 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.wayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spaceenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.connectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.carryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact and under control.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.nothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingcloseL5 close.spatial: having little space between two thingsoutsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryquantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spacedistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.noneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thingcomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.amountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numbermarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placereachL12 reach.spatial: to go to pointobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placedriftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.numberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placehappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.pointsL2 points.location: a part that is at a placecrossL13 cross.symbol: a shape made by two lines that touch togetherothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.linksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingstimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.lineL12 line.geometric: a set of points with regular arrangement in spacemakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.regularL1 regular.frequency: a thing that is the same pattern again over timegoL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placearrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.currentL4 current.fluid: a flow of matter or energy through a placepatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.bigL2 big.size: Having much space; more space than another thing has.
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Neighborhood

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

built frompossibilityL14possibility.potential — A window that can be reached from the current window without crossing a wall that is closed.windowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.wallL10wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.parameterL4parameter.condition — A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.driftL11drift.aimless — Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.closeL5close.spatial — having little space between two thingscrossL13cross.symbol — a shape made by two lines that touch togethercurrentL4current.fluid — a flow of matter or energy through a placereachL12reach.spatial — to go to point

Provenance

author: retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.8 · source: Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md