The Emergence Machine

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A part of the boundary of a thing.

Side (noun) means: A part of the boundary of a thing. It emerges from part, boundary: A boundary divided into parts, each part facing one region of space. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 3, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

side.surface · forms: side, sides

Examples

Emergence

from: part boundary
through: A boundary divided into parts, each part facing one region of space.

Chain to foundations

partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.sideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.
full chain as text (11 steps)

Neighborhood

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

used by — 5 more not shownbuilt fromsurroundedL4surrounded.enclosed — A thing is in a space where boundaries are on all sides around it.backL13back.spatial — a side of a thing that is part of its boundaryexteriorL13exterior.spatial — the side of a thing that is not insidenorthL13north.direction — the side of a place that is up on a mapsouthL13south.direction — the side of a place that is down in the usual map arrangement of spacetopL13top.upper — the part of a thing that is on the side that is upacrossL14across.spatial — from one side of a space to the other sidecollapseL14collapse.failure — A wall crossing where the parameter drifts outside the window and nothing on the far side inherits the function of the tsideL3side.surface — A part of the boundary of a thing.partL1part.relation — Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.boundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.

Used by (13)

surroundedL4backL13exteriorL13northL13southL13topL13acrossL14collapseL14bayL15frontL15westL15leftL16pageL16

Provenance

author: hand · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 1.0