The Emergence Machine

Consumer (Ecology sense)

physical · Biology · Level 6 · E6

E6Organisms

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 living system or structure involving life and matter emerges from the organized arrangement of interrelated parts that work together over time, building upon the understanding of structure and form, where particles occupy space and interact with energy, exhibiting patterns that govern its transformations and binding, and shape or arrangement that matter takes, as the particles that make up matter interact and transform in space.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Source: Wiktionary — “consumer eco”. 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.

thisfoundationsL6L5L4L3L2L1L0Consumer EcoAnimalOrganismCellSystemFormLifeStructureChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

thisprerequisitesConsumer EcoL6LifeL2SystemL3AnimalL5E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Life L2 (requires)
    to understand consumer-eco, one must first understand the concept of life
  • System L3 (requires) systems-theory sense
    A living system or structure involving life and matter.
  • Animal L5 (requires) Biology sense
    This is a specific animal; understanding what an animal is comes first