# locked in (path)

*Ordinarily means:* Being deeply focused and unable to stop what you're doing.

A parameter has drifted so far within its window that leaving it would cross a wall, though no one can see the wall yet because the model still fits.

- Computed level: L14 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: emergence

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [drift](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-drift.aimless), [window](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window.range), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-model.representation)

**Through:** self-model

**Novel properties:**
- boundary.limit
- maintenance.upkeep

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