coming of age · handover

the handover where a self-model stops being maintained by others' models of it and starts being maintained by its own readings.

Coming of age (noun) means: the handover where a self-model stops being maintained by others' models of it and starts being maintained by its own readings. It emerges from self-model, others, model, maintenance: While the thing is young its self-model is held in place by the models others maintain of it; at the handover the upkeep switches source, and from then on drift in the model can only be corrected by the model's own readings. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

ordinarily means: the passage from being a child to being an adult

Examples

• In the first year away from home, people report not knowing who they are: the maintainers of the old model are out of range. society
• A spun-off subsidiary spends its first year discovering which of its practices were its own and which were the parent's. business
• A fledgling raptor's first winter alone is when its hunting becomes its own or fails. biology

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

Provenance