head in the sand · unselective

keeping one reading out at the price of all readings, an exclusion that cannot be selective because what is blocked is the whole channel and not the threat.

Head in the sand (noun) means: keeping one reading out at the price of all readings, an exclusion that cannot be selective because what is blocked is the whole channel and not the threat. It emerges from read, stop, whole, single: The feared reading and every other reading share one channel; blocking the channel is the only exclusion available, so the model buys blindness to the one threat with blindness to everything else that is approaching. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 21, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

ordinarily means: refusing to look at a problem in the hope it goes away

Examples

• A company that stops reading vulnerability reports also stops reading the one about the flaw it feared. security
• Skipping the scan avoids one diagnosis and all of them. medicine
• Not opening the brokerage statements hides the loss and also the margin call. finance

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

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