The Emergence Machine

Fish

physical · Biology · Level 6 · 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 biological entity that builds upon the multicellular organization of an animal, interacting with and responding to its environment, and is sustained by the essential property of water.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Source: Wiktionary — “fish”. 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.

thisfoundationsL6L5L4L3L2L1L0FishAnimalOrganismCellWaterFormLifeStructureSubstanceChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesAnchovyL7BarracudaL7CodL7EelL7FishingL7FishL6WaterL3AnimalL5E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Water L3 (requires) polysemous
    A biological entity involving water, animal.
  • Animal L5 (requires) Biology sense
    fish depends on animal

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