The Emergence Machine

Hospital

physical · Medicine · Level 8 · 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 space for medical care, where patients receive treatment for various ailments.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Source: Wiktionary — “hospital”. 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.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L2L1L0HospitalSickBodyHealthAnimalDisease… intermediate l…ForceFormLifeProcessActionChangeMatterMotionEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesAmbulanceL9NurseL9HospitalL8SpaceL0HealthL6SickL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Space L0 (requires)
    A hospital is a space for medical care
  • Health L6 (requires)
    A hospital treats disease and injury, which implies the existence of health as a prerequisite for disease.
  • Sick L7 (requires)
    A hospital treats disease and injury

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