The Emergence Machine

Kill

process · biology · 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.

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Emergence definition

When death, as the cessation of life, is intentionally caused by disrupting the essential processes that sustain life, which is itself the integration of cell and energy within a system.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
kill
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL9L8L7L6L2L1L0KillDeathFamilyGroupReproduction… intermediate l…FormLifeProcessStructureActionChangeCollectionMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesVeganismL10KillL9LifeL2DeathL8E1 concrete → E14 abstract

In other languages

  • kill English primary

Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Life L2 (requires)
    Only living things can be killed
  • Death L8 (requires)
    Killing causes death

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