The Emergence Machine

Finger

physical · anatomy · Level 9 · E6

E6Organisms

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.

Trace. Question. Emerge.

Emergence definition

A finger is a slender jointed digit of the hand, emerging from the hand's biological structure, composed of a specific arrangement of bone, allowing for a more precise and detailed understanding of the body's coordinated system of interconnected parts.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Source: Wiktionary — “finger”. 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.

thisfoundationsL9L8L7L6L2L1L0FingerHandArmBoneBodyTissue… intermediate l…FormLifeStructureChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesCafuneL10FingernailL10Finger PartL10KnuckleL10Ring JewelryL10FingerL9BoneL7HandL8E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Bone L7 (requires)
    Slender jointed digits of the hand -- prerequisite: bone
  • Hand L8 (requires)
    Body part dependency

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