The Emergence Machine

Thick

property · Quality · 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.

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Emergence definition

Having great depth or density emerges from the combination of substance and size, as substance provides the material foundation and size allows for the measurement of depth or density.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Source: Wiktionary — “thick”. 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.

thisfoundationsL3L2L1L0ThickSizeSubstanceMatterQuantityEnergyPatternSpaceE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesThinL4ThickL3SizeL2SubstanceL2E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Size L2 (requires)
    Having great depth or density -- prerequisite: size
  • Substance L2 (requires)
    Having great depth or density -- prerequisite: substance

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