The Emergence Machine

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abstract · History · Level 6 · E10

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Emergence definition

A document emerges from the intersection of human creativity and historical record, where humans, as complex biological organisms, create written or printed records of information or events in history, which preserve information from the past for future reference.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
documentum
Origin language
la

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL6L5L4L3L2L1L0DocumentHumanHistoryOrganismCellRecordFormInformationLifePastChangeMatterPresentEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesLaw BookL7Law DocumentL7ResumeL7Lien DocumentL8ManuscriptL8DocumentL6HistoryL4HumanL5E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • History L4 (requires)
    history is a core concept needed to understand document
  • Human L5 (requires)
    document builds on the concept of human

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