The Emergence Machine

Community (Sociology sense)

abstract · Sociology · Level 8 · E7

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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

An ecological community of organisms interacting in a shared environment is a complex system that arises from the interactions and relationships between organisms and their environment.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Source: Wiktionary — “community soc”. 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.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L2L1L0Community SocCommunityEcosystemCooperationEcologyGroupAnimalBehaviorGoal… intermediate l…EnvironmentFormLifeStructureActionChangeCollectionMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesTribeL9Community SocL8CommunityL7EcosystemL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Community L7 (requires) Sociology sense
    An ecological community of organisms interacting in a shared environment.
  • Ecosystem L7 (requires) polysemous
    To understand community-soc, one must first understand ecosystem.

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