# human (person)

a person that lives as life

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: common  ·  Arena: everyday

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

**Through:** people.social and life.biological together make a person that thinks

**Novel properties:**
- self‑awareness
- culture
- language

## Examples
- Marie Curie published groundbreaking work on radioactivity while managing a lab in Paris from 1906 to 913. *(science)*
- The 2020 U.S. Census counted 331 million people living in the United States. *(demographics)*
- A nurse in Tokyo commutes daily to care for elderly patients at St. Luke's Hospital. *(everyday_life)*

## Used by
- [bed](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-bed.furniture) (L17)
- [editor](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-editor.role) (L17)
- [girls](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-girls.human) (L17)
- [happy](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-happy.emotional) (L18)
- [kids](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-kids.human) (L17)
- [king](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-king.monarch) (L17)
- [natural](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-natural.ordinary) (L17)
- [pleasure](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-pleasure.feeling) (L17)
- [present](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-present.gift) (L17)
- [smith](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-smith.metalwork) (L22)
- [submit](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-submit.administrative) (L18)
- [voice](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-voice.auditory) (L17)

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