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a need for something that is off

Want (verb) means: a need for something that is off. It emerges from need, off: the need interacts with the off state. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 6, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

want.desire · forms: want, wanted, wanting, wants

Examples

Emergence

from: need off
through: the need interacts with the off state

Chain to foundations

persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.offL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is therepartL1 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.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.needL5 need.psychological: a state that diverges from a persistent condition of an objectconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placedifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.wantL6 want.desire: a need for something that is off
full chain as text (48 steps)

Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromwishL7wish.emotional — a want for a possible state that differs from nowinterestL8interest.psychological — a state that makes a person want to learn about somethingpleasureL17pleasure.feeling — A feeling in a human that the human wants to have more of.wantL6want.desire — a need for something that is offneedL5need.psychological — a state that diverges from a persistent condition of an objectoffL2off.state — when a thing is not here, it is there

Used by (3)

wishL7interestL8pleasureL17

Relations

is-aneed.psychologicalis-a
enablesget.acquisitionenables

Provenance

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