necessary · obligation
Ask Prometheusrequired for a change to happen
Necessary (adjective) means: required for a change to happen. It emerges from required, change, happen: required and change together create a condition that the change cannot occur without it. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 7, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The International Space Station requires regular reboosts to counteract atmospheric drag and maintain orbit. engineering
- Cyanobacteria had to evolve oxygenic photosynthesis for Earth's atmosphere to shift from anoxic to oxic 2.4 billion years ago. biology
- Bitcoin mining consumes more electricity than Argentina annually to secure transaction validation on the blockchain. computing
Emergence
through: required and change together create a condition that the change cannot occur without it
- dependency for change
- temporal necessity
- unavoidable condition
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (52 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| is-a | required.obligation | is-a |