The Emergence Machine

Bed

physical · Technology · Level 8 · E11

E11Organizations

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 bed emerges as furniture designed for sleeping, which leverages the structure and material that provide a surface or organization for holding, supporting, or arranging other objects, and is closely tied to the temporary state of reduced consciousness and decreased responsiveness to the environment known as sleep.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L4L2L1L0BedSleepBodyAnimalFurnitureOrganism… intermediate l…FormLifeStructureSubstanceChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesPlayaL9BedL8FurnitureL4SleepL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Furniture L4 (requires)
    A bed is furniture designed for sleeping
  • Sleep L7 (requires)
    A bed is where people sleep

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