The Emergence Machine

Touch

process · Biology · Level 8 · E6

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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

Touch is a biological entity involving sensory perception, skin, and pattern, where the ability to detect and respond to stimuli in the environment, and the structure of skin, emerge from the organized arrangement of interrelated parts, governed by patterns that govern its transformations and binding, and 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 “touch” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “touch”. 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.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L2L1L0TouchSensorySkinBodyNeuronTissueAnimal… intermediate l…FormLifeStructureChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesAgainstL9OllningL9Palm HandL9TendernessL9GentleL11TouchL8SensoryL7SkinL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Sensory L7 (requires)
    A biological entity involving sensory, skin, pattern.
  • Skin L7 (requires)
    touch depends on skin

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