The Emergence Machine

Beautiful

property · aesthetics · Level 7 · 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

Beauty is the pleasing quality that arises when perception, the process of interpreting sensory information, is aesthetically judged by the mind, thereby giving rise to a subjective experience that varies across observers.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
beautiful
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL7L6L5L4L3L2L1L0BeautifulBeautyPerceptionOrganismCellFormLifeStructureChangeMatterQualityEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

thisprerequisitesBeautifulL7BeautyL6E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Beauty L6 (requires)
    Beautiful describes the quality of beauty