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A collective outcome nobody chose, where motion through a structure is mistaken for intentional distribution, and the source is treated as a cause even though the flow would stop if the structure's maintenance ceased.

Trickle down (noun) means: A collective outcome nobody chose, where motion through a structure is mistaken for intentional distribution, and the source is treated as a cause even though the flow would stop if the structure's maintenance ceased. It emerges from flow, structure, maintenance, source: none. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

trickle-down.collective · forms: trickle down

ordinarily means: When benefits from the top eventually reach the bottom.

Examples

Emergence

from: flow structure maintenance source cause
through: none

Chain to foundations

othersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundarysourceL2 source.origin: a place where a thing beginsforceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionflowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.causeL3 cause.reason: thing that brings about a change through interaction with another thingholdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not movemotionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariespartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placekeepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or stateenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarytimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfaceworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacepersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.trickle downL16 trickle-down.collective: A collective outcome nobody chose, where motion through a structure is mistaken for intentional distribution, and the source is treated as a cause even though the flow would stop if the structure's maintenance ceased.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.objectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.maintenanceL14 maintenance.upkeep: Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromtrickle downL16trickle-down.collective — A collective outcome nobody chose, where motion through a structure is mistaken for intentional distribution, and the soflowL3flow.movement — Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.structureL2structure.arrangement — The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.maintenanceL14maintenance.upkeep — Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.sourceL2source.origin — a place where a thing beginscauseL3cause.reason — thing that brings about a change through interaction with another thing

Provenance

author: phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.7 · source: folk phrase — collective outcome nobody chose