Field effect

An emergent ordering created by a well-arranged structure of centers of different sizes, binding them into a whole.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Gradients
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The property that qualities vary slowly, subtly, gradually across the extent of each living thing; gradients arise as natural responses to changing circumstances and create field-like character that points toward and establishes centers

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

butterfly effectconcept0.799
Tiny differences in initial conditions can lead to vastly divergent outcomes, explaining why living structure must be created dynamically.
field-like perceptionconcept0.787
Perception that is smooth and can be evaluated at any point, like a differentiable field; Antra's functionalist interpretation.
Perceptual Fieldconcept0.763
Area in space and time an agent can survey to find alternative paths to a goal; increases with collective size.
Eureka Effectconcept0.749
Psychological phenomenon of sudden understanding; introduced by Auble et al. 1979; formalized here via BMR
Law of Effectconcept0.747
Thorndike's principle that satisfied behaviors are strengthened; paper argues stripping its experiential language is incoherent
Effect Coefficient (Eff)concept0.744
Normalized EI bounded 0-1, decomposed into determinism minus degeneracy.
tracer effectconcept0.740
Phenomenon where a moment bleeds into adjacent moments temporally; includes deja vu as reversed direction.
Eliza Effectconcept0.737
The phenomenon where naive or vulnerable users perceive dialogue agents as having human-like desires and feelings, putting them at risk of emotional manipulation