The Emergence Machine

While

abstract · temporal · Level 1 · E0

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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

The concept of while emerges from understanding time as a progression from past to present to future, and pattern as a repeated arrangement of elements, which together enable the identification of a point in time that is concurrent with another.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Source: Wiktionary — “while”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
while
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL1L0WhilePatternTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesSkyscraperL4Pedal PointL9WhileL1PatternL0TimeL0E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Pattern L0 (requires)
    Understanding pattern helps understand the temporal concept of while
  • Time L0 (requires)
    This is a temporal concept relating to time

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