The Emergence Machine

Pest

physical · Agriculture · Level 8 · E6

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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

Pest is an entity that affects the outcome of farming, causing changes in the pattern of food production and land use.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
pestis
Origin language
la

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L2L1L0PestFarmingFoodAnimal… intermediate l…ProcessFormLandLifeActionChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesPesticideL9PestL8ActionL1ProcessL2AnimalL5FarmingL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Action L1 (requires)
    Understanding action is foundational to the process of pest
  • Process L2 (requires) Systems sense
    pest requires understanding process as a foundational concept
  • Animal L5 (requires) polysemous
    This is a specific animal; understanding what an animal is comes first
  • Farming L7 (requires)
    An agricultural concept relating to pest, involving farming, cultivation, or food production.

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