The Emergence Machine

Community

abstract · Sociology · Level 7 · E9

E9Cultures

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

Groups, formed through the collection of organisms with a shared pattern and community, within a society, enabling the emergence of complex behaviors and relationships, interact and share common interests and geographic space, yielding a collective that cooperates to achieve shared goals and maintain social bonds.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
community
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL7L6L5L4L3L2L1L0CommunityCooperationGroupBehaviorGoalObjectiveOrganismCausalityCellFormLifeStructureActionChangeCollectionMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesClimax CommunityL8ClubL8CommonL8Community SocL8Ecosystem EcoL8CommunityL7CooperationL6GroupL6E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Cooperation L6 (requires)
    Community depends on cooperation among members to achieve shared interests and maintain social bonds.
  • Group L6 (requires) Sociology sense
    Community is composed of groups that interact and share common interests and geographic space.

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