The Emergence Machine

Person

physical · Biology · Level 7 · E6

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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

A person is a living being with a body, where the body is a structure that emerges from the organized arrangement of interrelated parts, governed by patterns that govern its transformations and binding, and shape or arrangement that matter takes, as the particles that make up matter interact and transform in space.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Source: Wiktionary — “person”. 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.

thisfoundationsL7L6L5L4L3L2L1L0PersonBodyAnimalOrganismCellFormLifeStructureChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesAdolescenceL8AdulthoodL8African American…L8AgingL8AloneL8PersonL7BodyL6E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Body L6 (requires)
    A person is a living being with a body

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