The Emergence Machine

Botany

physical · Biology · Level 6 · 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

The study of living systems or structures involving energy and pattern, where energy is the capacity to do work, manifesting as the ability to cause change or motion in a physical system.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
botany
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL6L5L4L3L2L1L0BotanyAnimalOrganismCellFormLifeStructureChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

thisprerequisitesBotanyL6OrganismL4AnimalL5E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Organism L4 (requires)
    Botany is the scientific study of plants, including their structure, function, growth, reproduction, and ecological relationships.
  • Animal L5 (requires) Biology sense
    This is a specific animal; understanding what an animal is comes first