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When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.

Touch (verb) means: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other. It emerges from space, boundary, interaction, change: The meeting of two boundaries in space enables mutual change, allowing energy or influence to pass between the things. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 3, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

touch.together · forms: touch, touched, touches, touching

Examples

Emergence

from: space boundary interaction change
through: The meeting of two boundaries in space enables mutual change, allowing energy or influence to pass between the things.

Chain to foundations

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.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
full chain as text (13 steps)

Neighborhood

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

used by — 14 more not shownbuilt fromclickL4click.mechanical — When parts touch together and a change happenscontactL4contact.physical — When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.interactingL4interacting.social — when two things change each other while touchingsearchL4search.action — to move in space until touching anothersurfaceL4surface.exterior — A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.webL4web.structure — a structure of many pieces that touch each otherheldL5held.grip — to be in contact with a thing and stay in that contactcouplingL6coupling.connection — When two things are joined so each can affect the other.touchL3touch.together — When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.spaceL0space.extent — Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.boundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.interactionL2interaction.process — When two things change each other.changeL1change.process — When a thing is not the same after as it was before.

Used by (22)

clickL4contactL4interactingL4searchL4surfaceL4webL4heldL5couplingL6peopleL6supportL6crossL11uponL11golfL13holdL13plugL13common groundL15beachL16feelL16helicopter parentingL16portL16handL17wounded nationL20

Relations

enablesinteraction.processtouch is the spatial precondition for direct interaction

Provenance

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