# living in a bubble (curated)

*Ordinarily means:* living where nothing ever challenges what you believe

a model that passes every check it can run because the boundary filters the world it is checked against, not the readings taken of it.

- Computed level: L20 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: model and reality

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-model.representation), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [environment](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-environment.surroundings), [check](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-check.verification), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [world](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-world.place), [enter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-enter.spatial), [maintenance](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-maintenance.upkeep)

**Through:** The boundary does its work on what may enter the surroundings; every reading the model takes inside is honest and every one confirms it, so the model's checks all pass and its error is stored entirely in the boundary.

**Novel properties:**
- error stored in the boundary
- honest readings of a filtered world
- confirmation by environment

## Examples
- Inside the feed every article is fact-checked and true, and the selection is where the error lives. *(media)*
- The prince inspects a kingdom that is repainted one day ahead of his route. *(history)*
- A lab strain passes every assay because no assay contains the wild. *(biology)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-living-in-a-bubble.curated*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-living-in-a-bubble.curated.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*