The Emergence Machine

Coffin

physical · General · Level 9 · E11

E11Organizations

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Emergence definition

A box for burying a dead person, requiring wood to provide a physical structure and death to necessitate the burial process.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Historical origin

Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL9L8L7L6L2L1L0CoffinDeathFamilyWoodGroupPlantReproduction… intermediate l…FormLifeProcessStructureActionChangeCollectionMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

thisprerequisitesCoffinL9WoodL7DeathL8E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Wood L7 (requires) polysemous
    Box for burying a dead person -- prerequisite: wood
  • Death L8 (requires)
    Box for burying a dead person -- prerequisite: death