The Emergence Machine

Primary Productivity

property · Ecology · Level 15 · E8

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Emergence definition

Primary productivity arises from the relationships between organisms and their environment, where the balance of matter and energy allows for the existence and interaction of entities, and productivity measures the output of these interactions.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
primary productivity
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL15L14L13L12L3L2L1L0Primary Producti…ProductivityLaborExchangeBalanceBuildingCausalityCell… intermediate l…ForceFormLifeOperationActionChangeCollectionDistributionEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesGross Primary Pr…L16Net Primary Prod…L16Primary Producti…L15BalanceL3ProductivityL14E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Balance L3 (requires) Visual Arts sense
    primary productivity requires understanding balance as a foundational concept
  • Productivity L14 (requires) Ecology sense
    An ecological concept relating to primary productivity, involving relationships between organisms and their environment.

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