{
  "handle": "Crossripening",
  "gloss": "Development in one area makes development in another newly possible",
  "mechanism": "A change in one capacity or setting supplies something another developmental path lacked, such as a prerequisite, access, support, a distinction or a way of practising, so that the second path gains an opportunity for development it did not have before. The second development need not then occur, and parallel improvement without such a contribution is not an instance.",
  "invariants": [
    "The contribution crosses two distinguishable areas of development.",
    "It changes what development is possible in the receiving area."
  ],
  "failure_modes": [
    "Coincidence read as enabling: two areas improving at once are taken as one enabling the other.",
    "Possibility read as certainty: a newly possible development is assumed to happen."
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "path": [
      "Mind",
      "Dynamics"
    ],
    "ring": 2,
    "tier": 2,
    "related": [
      "ConceptBlend",
      "Cocapacity",
      "Readyrise"
    ],
    "minted": "2026-10-05T22:27:58+00:00"
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:Crossripening#mh:SHA-256:9f964712c0fa7c10e842d94a84ada82d4adf7840062afbfc88af7485a987418e",
  "sema_ref": "Crossripening#9f96",
  "sema_stub": "9f96",
  "sema_layer": "Mind",
  "sema_category": "Dynamics",
  "used_by": {}
}