The Emergence Machine

Sustainability

abstract · environment · Level 4 · E10

E10Institutions

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

Sustainability arises from the ability of a system to maintain its own viability, which is rooted in the fundamental understanding of existence and causality, where meaning and energy interact to govern the transformations and binding of matter in space.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
sustainability
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL4L3L2L1L0SustainabilitySystemFormStructureChangeExistenceMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesSustainability EcoL8Environmental En…L12SustainabilityL4ExistenceL1SystemL3E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Existence L1 (requires)
    to understand sustainability, you must understand existence
  • System L3 (requires) systems-theory sense
    sustainability requires understanding system as a foundational concept

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