The Emergence Machine

Tomb

physical · General · Level 10 · E10

E10Institutions

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Emergence definition

A large vault for the dead, often made of stone, where the process of death has occurred, marking the end of a life, and situated within the earth.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Historical origin

Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL10L9L8L7L3L2L1L0TombGrave BurialDeathFamilyCausalityCellEarthStone… intermediate l…EnvironmentFormLifeProcessActionChangeCollectionMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesPyramidL11TombL10StoneL3Grave BurialL9E1 concrete → E14 abstract

In other languages

  • tomb English primary

Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Stone L3 (requires) polysemous
    Large vault for the dead -- prerequisite: stone
  • Grave Burial L9 (requires)
    Large vault for the dead -- prerequisite: grave-burial

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