ripening · approaching
Ask Prometheusparameters approaching the values at which a new window opens, while nothing yet occupies it.
Ripening (noun) means: parameters approaching the values at which a new window opens, while nothing yet occupies it. It emerges from parameter, window, wall, drift: Conditions drift aimlessly toward a boundary value at which a window can open, bringing a new state into proximity where none previously existed, while nothing occupies it and time has not yet crossed the threshold. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 20, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The Mauna Loa CO₂ concentration approached 400 ppm in 2012, nearing a climate tipping point never crossed in 800,000 years. climate
- In 2008, Iceland’s banking assets swelled to ten times GDP, seconds before the national financial system collapsed. economics
- The Fukushima Daiichi reactors approached core meltdown temperatures within minutes after cooling systems failed post-tsunami. engineering
Emergence
through: Conditions drift aimlessly toward a boundary value at which a window can open, bringing a new state into proximity where none previously existed, while nothing occupies it and time has not yet crossed the threshold.
- imminence of transition
- unoccupied potential
- temporal nearness to emergence
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (348 steps)
- ripeningL20
- parameterL4
- windowL7
- wallL14
- driftL11
- approachL19
- newL4
- nothingL10
- openL18
- timeL0
- yetL2
- timeL0
- differenceL1
- valueL13
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.