The Emergence Machine

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on a location that is above and touching another location

Upon (adjective) means: on a location that is above and touching another location. It emerges from above, touch, location: When a location is both above and touching another location, the relationship is expressed as upon. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 13, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

upon.spatial · forms: upon

Examples

Emergence

from: above touch location
through: When a location is both above and touching another location, the relationship is expressed as upon.

Chain to foundations

riseL3 rise.movement: When a thing moves up in space during time.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.pointsL2 points.location: a part that is at a placebigL2 big.size: Having much space; more space than another thing has.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.locationL12 location.spatial: a point where a thing is in spacetimeL0 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.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.aboveL5 above.spatial: higher in space than another thingmotionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.uponL13 upon.spatial: on a location that is above and touching another locationhighL4 high.spatial: When a thing is more up in space than most other things.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromuponL13upon.spatial — on a location that is above and touching another locationaboveL5above.spatial — higher in space than another thingtouchL3touch.together — When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.locationL12location.spatial — a point where a thing is in space

Relations

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Provenance

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