# baby (human)

a young child

- Computed level: L9 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: human  ·  Arena: baby

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [growth](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-growth.development), [live](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-live.biological)

**Through:** growth and live together create a new young human

**Novel properties:**
- individual identity
- dependence

## Examples
- In 2023, Maya Angelou's great-granddaughter Nova was born at 38 weeks, weighing 7.2 pounds. *(biology)*
- The newborn son of Emperor Louis IV, born in Munich in 1315, was heir to the Holy Roman Empire. *(institutions)*
- A baby in a neonatal intensive care unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital survived on a respirator for 42 days. *(engineering)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-baby.human*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-baby.human.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*