The Emergence Machine

Common

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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

Commonness arises when a shared pattern or interest is exhibited by a high frequency of occurrences within a community, where the collective repetition of this pattern or interest across a group of organisms enables the emergence of a shared identity and facilitates cooperation and social bonding.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
common
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L2L1L0CommonCommunityCooperationGroupBehaviorFrequencyGoal… intermediate l…ForceFormLifeStructureActionChangeCollectionMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

thisprerequisitesCommonL8FrequencyL5CommunityL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Frequency L5 (requires)
    Commonness implies high frequency
  • Community L7 (requires) Sociology sense
    Common things are shared by a community