The Emergence Machine

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about people that interact together in a community

Social (adjective) means: about people that interact together in a community. It emerges from people, community, interacting, interaction: people interact within a community through mutual change during touch. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 8, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

social.relational · forms: social, socially

Examples

Emergence

from: people community interacting interaction
through: people interact within a community through mutual change during touch.

Chain to foundations

touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.interactingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchingboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.setsL3 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.peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchdifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.socialL8 social.relational: about people that interact together in a communitychangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.communityL7 community.social: a set of people that interact togetherdistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinggroupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromcustomL9custom.social — a usual pattern in a social groupthankL12thank.social — to express gratitude as a social response to othersplayfulL13playful.behavioral — a lighthearted, spontaneous disposition arising from unstructured social playsocialL8social.relational — about people that interact together in a communitypeopleL6people.social — a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchcommunityL7community.social — a set of people that interact togetherinteractingL4interacting.social — when two things change each other while touchinginteractionL2interaction.process — When two things change each other.

Used by (3)

customL9thankL12playfulL13

Relations

abstractspeople.socialabstracts
enablesinteracting.socialenables

Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6