The Emergence Machine

Shoulder

physical · anatomy · Level 8 · E6

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Emergence definition

A shoulder emerges as the joint connecting the arm to the torso, where the arm is a biological structure composed of body and organ, and the body is a coordinated system of interconnected parts.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Source: Wiktionary — “shoulder”. 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.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L2L1L0ShoulderArmBodyAnimal… intermediate l…FormLifeStructureChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesShawlL9StoleL9ShoulderL8ArmL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Arm L7 (requires)
    Joint connecting the arm to the torso -- prerequisite: arm

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