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the self-model reading its own pattern rather than the thing itself, so what the model has no terms for is reported as nothing there rather than as not read.

Introspection (noun) means: the self-model reading its own pattern rather than the thing itself, so what the model has no terms for is reported as nothing there rather than as not read. It emerges from self-model, self, model, read: The self-model queries its own compressed pattern instead of the underlying process, and whatever falls outside the model's vocabulary returns as an absence rather than as an unread region. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• People asked to report the moment they formed an intention report it later than the readiness signals that appear first in EEG recordings. neuroscience
• A profiler that only instruments function calls reports an idle program even while the time is going to garbage collection it cannot see. computing
• Shoppers asked why they preferred a product confidently name reasons that the experimental setup shows played no role in the choice. psychology

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

Provenance