The Emergence Machine

Mono No Aware

abstract · Aesthetics · Level 11 · E9

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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

Mono-no-aware emerges from consciousness and requires beauty, sadness, and time.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Source: Wiktionary — “pathos of things”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
物の哀れ
Origin language
ja

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL11L10L9L8L2L1L0Mono No AwareSadnessResponseAwarenessEmotionStimulus… intermediate l…FormLifeStructureThingActionChangeExistenceMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

thisprerequisitesMono No AwareL11ThingL2AwarenessL8SadnessL10E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Thing L2 (requires)
    The bittersweet awareness of the transience of things.
  • Awareness L8 (requires)
    The bittersweet awareness of the transience of things.
  • Sadness L10 (requires)
    Understanding sadness is foundational to mono-no-aware.