# groupthink (collective)

*Ordinarily means:* When a group makes a decision that everyone seems to agree on but no one really thought through.

A self-model in a collection that mistakes its own repetition for truth, narrowing the window until difference cannot enter.

- Computed level: L15 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: social

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive), [collection](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collection.group), [narrow](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrow.spatial), [window](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window.range), [difference](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-difference.relation)

**Through:** interaction.process

**Novel properties:**
- collective.outcome_nobody_chose

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-groupthink.collective*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-groupthink.collective.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*