The Emergence Machine

Basketball

process · sports · Level 2 · E9

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Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court with a raised hoop, where continuous motion through dribbling, passing, and jumping is used to score points by shooting the ball through the hoop, built upon the fundamental concepts of action and motion.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “basketball” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “basketball”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
basketball
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL2L1L0BasketballActionMotionEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

thisprerequisitesBasketballL2ActionL1MotionL1E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Action L1 (requires)
    basketball requires understanding action as a foundational concept
  • Motion L1 (requires)
    Understanding motion is essential for grasping basketball