The Emergence Machine

Salty

property · Culinary · Level 11 · E1

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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

Salty is a taste that emerges from the interaction between the chemical composition of salt and the biological entity of taste, which involves sensory detection and response to stimuli in the environment.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
salty
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL11L10L9L8L7L5L2L1L0SaltyTasteMouthTechniqueFaceSkillCookingSaltHeadLearningAnimalHeatPerception… intermediate l…ForceFormKinetic EnergyLifeActionChangeMatterMotionEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesWest Spitsbergen…L12SaltyL11PerceptionL5CookingL7SaltL7TechniqueL9TasteL10E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Perception L5 (requires)
    Having the taste of salt -- prerequisite: perception
  • Cooking L7 (requires)
    salty builds on the concept of cooking
  • Salt L7 (requires)
    Having the taste of salt -- prerequisite: salt
  • Technique L9 (requires) polysemous
    salty builds on the concept of technique
  • Taste L10 (requires)
    Salty is one of the five basic tastes, crucial for understanding flavor balance.

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