guilt · act-scoped
Ask Prometheusa self-model reporting one past act as outside the window rather than the whole self, which is why it stops when the act is repaired.
Guilt (noun) means: a self-model reporting one past act as outside the window rather than the whole self, which is why it stops when the act is repaired. It emerges from self-model, self, model, report: The self-model scopes its negative report to a single completed act rather than to itself, so the report has a repair condition: fixing what the act broke terminates the signal. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 19, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- A debt repaid with an apology can end the matter between friends in a way no apology ends humiliation. society
- Restorative justice closes a case when the offender repairs what the act broke, which punishment alone does not do. institutions
- A postmortem that names the faulty deploy and reverts it lets the engineer sleep, where a review of the engineer would not. engineering
Emergence
through: The self-model scopes its negative report to a single completed act rather than to itself, so the report has a repair condition: fixing what the act broke terminates the signal.
- act-scoped negative report
- repair-terminated signal
- self-sparing accountability
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (424 steps)
- guiltL19
- self-modelL14
- selfL7
- modelL9
- reportL8
- messageL7
- stateL2
- happenL2
- eventL3
- informationL6
- pastL2
- actL3
- outsideL6
- windowL7
- wholeL3
- stopL16
- motionL2
- boundaryL2
- changeL1
- interactionL2
- interactingL4
- limitL15
- repairL18
- ratherL3
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | shame.emotional | guilt scopes one act outside the window and ends on repair; shame reports the whole model near the wall, so repair of any single act does not end it |