The Emergence Machine

Software

abstract · Technology · Level 3 · E10

E10Institutions

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

Software arises from the structured coded information that emerges from the transformations of state or condition, which is a manifestation of meaningful patterns that can be communicated.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Source: Wiktionary — “software”. 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.

thisfoundationsL3L2L1L0SoftwareFormInformationStructureChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesAgileL4BearingL4ClientL4ContainerL4DecentralizationL4SoftwareL3FormL2InformationL2StructureL2E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Form L2 (requires)
    Understanding form helps understand the structure of software
  • Information L2 (requires)
    Software is structured coded information
  • Structure L2 (requires) polysemous
    Software has logical structure and organization

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