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a position within a collective that performs a recurring pattern of behavior

Role (noun) means: a position within a collective that performs a recurring pattern of behavior. It emerges from part, pattern, groups, regular: the part and the regular pattern together instantiate a stable condition within the collective. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 13, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• The night watch at Masada sounded alarms every two hours until the Roman siege in 73 CE. institutions
• In a beehive, the forager bees return to the same hive daily, transferring nectar to receiver bees. biology
• The Linux kernel's merge window assigns maintainers to review specific subsystem code every release cycle. computing

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

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