# insecurity (proximity)

a self-model that reports the wall as near however far from it the parameter actually is, so its maintenance goes to a wall that is not there.

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

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive), [self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self.personal), [model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-model.representation), [report](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-report.information), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [near](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-near.spatial), [far](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-far.distance), [parameter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-parameter.condition), [actually](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-actually.real), [maintenance](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-maintenance.upkeep), [go](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-go.movement)

**Through:** The self-model's proximity report is decoupled from the parameter's actual position, so upkeep is continuously routed toward defending an edge the system is nowhere close to.

**Novel properties:**
- position-independent alarm
- misdirected maintenance
- phantom wall defense

## Examples
- A student with top grades prepares every exam as if a single failure would end the degree. *(education)*
- An employee rereads a neutral one-line email from a manager as the start of a dismissal. *(workplace)*
- A load balancer tuned to treat every latency blip as impending failure spends its capacity on migrations it never needed. *(computing)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-insecurity.proximity*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-insecurity.proximity.json*  
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