The Emergence Machine

Focus

process · Cinema · Level 13 · E0

E0Spacetime

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

Focus is the adjustment of attention to a specific point of interest, centered on a precise location in space.

Compare Focus with…

Wiktionary senses

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

Loading senses…

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

Historical origin

Origin word
focus
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL13L12L11L10L7L2L1L0FocusCinemaFilmImageAttentionCameraLearningVisual… intermediate l…FormLifeStructurePositionActionChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesAttention DeficitL14OlericultureL14PastoralistL14Pull FocusL14Rack FocusL14FocusL13PositionL1AttentionL7CinemaL12E1 concrete → E14 abstract

In other languages

Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Position L1 (requires)
    Focus centers on a specific point of interest
  • Attention L7 (requires)
    Focus is directing attention to a single point
  • Cinema L12 (requires)
    This is a cinema-related concept; understanding cinema comes first

Used by