The Emergence Machine

Cage

physical · Level 3 · E9

E9Cultures

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

Cage is a structure for containing animals, where structure requires matter and pattern, and form is the abstraction of matter.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Source: Wiktionary — “Cage”. 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.

thisfoundationsL3L2L1L0CageFormStructureMatterStructure AbsEnergyPatternSpaceE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

thisprerequisitesCageL3Structure AbsL1FormL2E1 concrete → E14 abstract

Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Structure Abs L1 (requires) organization sense
    Cage is a structure for containing animals
  • Form L2 (requires)
    Understanding form helps understand the structure of cage