The Emergence Machine

Consumer

abstract · Business · Level 12 · E10

E10Institutions

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

A consumer is an economic entity that engages in the production, distribution, or exchange of goods and services, but the concept of distribution is missing to fully define it.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
consumer
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL12L11L10L9L2L1L0ConsumerConsumptionProductionPrincipalResourceEconomy… intermediate l…FormInformationLifeStructureActionChangeCollectionDistributionEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesDemandL13Primary ConsumerL13Ready To WearL13Secondary ConsumerL13Tertiary ConsumerL13ConsumerL12ConsumptionL11ProductionL11E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Consumption L11 (foundational)
    Consumption provides the foundational basis for understanding consumer.
  • Production L11 (requires)
    production is a necessary prerequisite for consumer to understand economic concept of consumption

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