The Emergence Machine

Cultivation

process · Agriculture · Level 7 · E9

E9Cultures

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Emergence definition

Cultivation is the practice of working the land to grow plants, which requires understanding land as a spatial extent of solid ground and the process of plant growth.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL7L6L5L4L3L2L1L0CultivationPlantAnimalOrganismCellFormLandLifeStructureChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesAfforestationL8ApicultureL8AquacultureL8ArboricultureL8BeekeepingL8CultivationL7LandL2PlantL6E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Land L2 (requires)
    Cultivation requires working the land
  • Plant L6 (requires) polysemous
    Cultivation is the practice of growing plants

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