The Emergence Machine

Tooth

physical · anatomy · Level 3 · E6

E6Organisms

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Emergence definition

A tooth is a hard, calcified structure in the mouth used for biting and chewing, emerging from the organized arrangement of matter, where particles occupy space and interact with energy, exhibiting patterns that govern its transformations and binding, and taking on a specific shape or arrangement that matter takes, as the particles that make up matter interact and transform in space.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Source: Wiktionary — “tooth”. 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.

thisfoundationsL3L2L1L0ToothFormStructureMatterEnergyPatternSpaceE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesBiteL7Shark FishL7DentistL8Gum MouthL10ToothL3FormL2StructureL2E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Form L2 (requires)
    tooth requires understanding form as a foundational concept
  • Structure L2 (requires) organization sense
    tooth requires understanding structure as a foundational concept

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