The Emergence Machine

Saudade

abstract · Psychology · 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

Saudade emerges from emotion and requires memory, loss, and sadness.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
Saudade
Origin language
pt

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL11L10L9L8L3L2L1L0SaudadeLossEconomyKnowledgeEmotionSocietyThoughtNeverCausalityCellLive… intermediate l…DurationFormInformationLifeActionChangeCollectionMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

thisprerequisitesSaudadeL11NeverL3EmotionL8KnowledgeL9LossL10E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Never L3 (requires)
    A deep emotional state of melancholic longing for something or someone that is absent, often accompanied by the knowledge that the object of longing may never return.
  • Emotion L8 (requires)
    A deep emotional state of melancholic longing for something or someone that is absent, often accompanied by the knowledge that the object of longing may never return.
  • Knowledge L9 (requires) Education sense
    A deep emotional state of melancholic longing for something or someone that is absent, often accompanied by the knowledge that the object of longing may never return.
  • Loss L10 (requires)
    Understanding loss is foundational to saudade.