The Emergence Machine

Signal

physical · Information · Level 3 · E0

E0Spacetime

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.

Trace. Question. Emerge.

Emergence definition

A change in energy or matter that can be detected and interpreted by an organism.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
signal
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL3L2L1L0SignalInformationChangeWaveEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesInputL4LatencyL4OutputL4BandwidthL5Nerve AnatL9SignalL3WaveL1InformationL2E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Wave L1 (requires)
    signals are often transmitted as waves
  • Information L2 (requires)
    Signal requires understanding of information as a foundational concept.

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