The Emergence Machine

Highway

physical · transportation · Level 5 · E10

E10Institutions

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

A main public road for fast travel, built on solid ground that occupies space and has physical properties, enabling the movement of people or goods from one location to another.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
heahweg
Origin language
eng

A main road connecting towns and cities

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL5L4L3L2L1L0HighwayRoadSurfaceFormLandObjectTransportationExistenceMatterMotionEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

thisprerequisitesHighwayL5TransportationL2RoadL4E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Transportation L2 (requires)
    Main public road for fast travel -- prerequisite: transportation
  • Road L4 (requires)
    Main public road for fast travel -- prerequisite: road