possibility · potential
Ask PrometheusA 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 12, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- A player whose king is in check may only make moves that end the check; every other move is closed off by the rules. games
- A caterpillar can become a butterfly but never a bird: one change is open to its body, the other is walled off. biology
Emergence
through: The components together describe how unimpeded change along a parameter can allow movement from one bounded state to another through an open boundary.
- accessible states
- unblocked transitions
- contiguous ranges
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (188 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (2)
Relations
| contrasts-with | reach.action | reach is the part of possibility the thing can enter by its own action |