The Emergence Machine

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A parameter whose value is outside the window of every nearby system's input.

Waste (noun) means: A parameter whose value is outside the window of every nearby system's input. It emerges from window, parameter, drift, outside: Drifting parameter conditions fall outside the range acceptable to any organized system nearby, becoming unvalued and unassimilable. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 12, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

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Emergence

from: window parameter drift outside system value
through: Drifting parameter conditions fall outside the range acceptable to any organized system nearby, becoming unvalued and unassimilable.

Chain to foundations

windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.goodL6 good.moral: that which helps and is more than does not helpcontrolL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.partL1 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.useL6 use.application: to make something change with a controlpriceL8 price.economic: the piece of a thing that be given in an interactionrangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundarieswasteL12 waste.output: A parameter whose value is outside the window of every nearby system's input.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inflowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarypersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.offL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is theresetsL3 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.wayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spaceenergyL0 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.connectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.carryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact and under control.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.nothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thinghelpL5 help.assistance: to make another thing change when it can not change by itselfoutsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundarydistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingquantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spaceparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.valueL9 value.worth: how something's distinctness or utility determines its pricenoneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thingcomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.amountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numbermarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.conditionL3 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.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placedriftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.numberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placehappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.politeL3 polite.social: state that respect otherssystemL5 system.organized: a set of parts that interact together in a structureothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.linksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingsdeviceL5 device.tool: A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.goL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placetouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.qualityL4 quality.value: a state that is a thing more distinct or less distinctarrangementL3 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.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromwasteL12waste.output — A parameter whose value is outside the window of every nearby system's input.windowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.parameterL4parameter.condition — A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.driftL11drift.aimless — Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.outsideL6outside.spatial — the space that is not inside a thing's boundarysystemL5system.organized — a set of parts that interact together in a structurevalueL9value.worth — how something's distinctness or utility determines its price

Provenance

author: retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.8 · source: Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md