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a place where a self-model is wrong about what it can see, making trust drift beyond the boundary of what is actually observed

Blind spot (noun) means: a place where a self-model is wrong about what it can see, making trust drift beyond the boundary of what is actually observed. It emerges from self-model, trust, drift, boundary: self-model fails to account for a boundary, allowing trust to drift into unseen space. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

blind-spot.model · forms: blind spot

ordinarily means: a part of your view that you cannot see, even though it is there

Examples

Emergence

from: self-model trust drift boundary window
through: self-model fails to account for a boundary, allowing trust to drift into unseen space

Chain to foundations

windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.putL3 put.placement: to move something into a placestructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inwallL10 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.carryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact and under control.nothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingnoneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thingcomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.modelL9 model.representation: A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.objectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsmotionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.numberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placesubjectL5 subject.entity: a thing that a change process is about in an eventtimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.lineL12 line.geometric: a set of points with regular arrangement in spaceregularL1 regular.frequency: a thing that is the same pattern again over timeprocessL4 process.general: A set of changes that occur in something over time.point of no returnL11 point-of-no-return.irreversible: A wall in a parameter's window, beyond which the thing cannot persist even though its parts do.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.controlL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfacetakeL6 take.acquisition: to get something by moving it from its place into your ownrelevanceL12 relevance.core: a parameter whose drift moves a wallpersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.blind spotL16 blind-spot.model: a place where a self-model is wrong about what it can see, making trust drift beyond the boundary of what is actually observedoffL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is thereworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacemarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.sideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.acrossL14 across.spatial: from one side of a space to the other sidearrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarychoiceL9 choice.decision: an option that is selected among other optionssetsL3 sets.grouped: A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about them.eventL3 event.occurrence: a change that occurs in a place during a timeenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.getL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.amountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numberkeepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or statestateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placedriftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.forceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionhappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.pointsL2 points.location: a part that is at a placesystemL5 system.organized: a set of parts that interact together in a structureholdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not moveothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.messageL7 message.information: information that one entity puts into space for another entitymakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.goL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placeoptionsL8 options.choice: a set that can be selectedspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.occursL2 occurs.event: a change that is at some place during timerangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesdifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.wayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spaceconnectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.insteadL10 instead.alternative: as a difference that is a choice between one thing and anotheractL3 act.deed: do somethingoutsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryquantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spacesaysL8 says.speech: to make a message that other distinct entities getconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeselectL7 select.choice: to take one part from many that differlikeL3 like.similarity: When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.trustL15 trust.reliance: Acting on a model of another system instead of verifying it, affordable exactly across the range where the model holds.self-modelL14 self-model.reflexive: A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.directionL13 direction.spatial: a line that a thing points to as it goeslinksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingsinformationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencestouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.
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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

built fromblind spotL16blind-spot.model — a place where a self-model is wrong about what it can see, making trust drift beyond the boundary of what is actually obself-modelL14self-model.reflexive — A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.trustL15trust.reliance — Acting on a model of another system instead of verifying it, affordable exactly across the range where the model holds.driftL11drift.aimless — Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.boundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.windowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.

Provenance

author: phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.7 · source: folk phrase — model and trust