The Emergence Machine

Beauty

abstract · Aesthetics · Level 6 · 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

A quality that is perceived and judged differently by different observers based on their sensory and cognitive experience, which emerges from the prerequisites of perception and quality.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
beauty
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL6L5L4L3L2L1L0BeautyPerceptionOrganismCellFormLifeStructureChangeMatterQualityEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesBeautifulL7UglyL7AestheticL10AweL10AwareL11BeautyL6QualityL1PerceptionL5E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Quality L1 (requires)
    Beauty is a quality that is perceived.
  • Perception L5 (requires)
    Beauty is subjective and depends on perception; different observers perceive and judge beauty differently based on their sensory and cognitive experience.

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