{
  "id": "habit.grooved",
  "term": "habit",
  "sense": "grooved",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 24,
  "domain": "psychology",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a pattern become cheap enough to run without the self-model reading it, which is why it persists when the mind changes.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "pattern.regularity",
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "self.personal",
      "model.representation",
      "become.change",
      "cheap.economic",
      "enough.sufficient",
      "run.movement",
      "read.information",
      "persist.continue",
      "mind.cognitive",
      "change.process"
    ],
    "interaction": "Repetition drives the pattern's running cost low enough that execution no longer routes through the self-model, so a change of mind edits a model the pattern never consults.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "consult-free execution",
      "decision-proof persistence",
      "cost-earned autonomy"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Commuters who resolve to take a new route still find themselves at the old turn on mornings when they are thinking about something else.",
      "domain": "psychology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Fluent typists cannot say where the letters sit on a keyboard they use accurately every day.",
      "domain": "psychology"
    },
    {
      "text": "A refactored codebase keeps its old naming conventions because contributors type them without deciding to.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "old-habits-die-hard.path",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the idiom prices the update; the single word names running without the self-model consult at all"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "habit",
    "habits",
    "habitual",
    "habitually"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5:curated-selfmodel",
    "date": "2026-08-22",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "curated self-model expansion"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-habit.grooved"
}