{
  "id": "meeting-of-minds.alignment",
  "term": "meeting of minds",
  "sense": "alignment",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "domain": "bonds and their maintenance",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "the difference parameter between two self-models has drifted to the wall of no difference, placing their windows in contact so that the connection persists without any maintenance",
  "folk_gloss": "when people seem to understand each other perfectly",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "difference.relation",
      "parameter.condition",
      "wall.range-end",
      "window.range",
      "drift.aimless",
      "maintenance.upkeep"
    ],
    "interaction": "the drift of the difference parameter brings the two windows into contact, eliminating the need for maintenance",
    "novel_properties": [
      "zero-difference overlap"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "meeting of minds"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — bonds and their maintenance"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-meeting-of-minds.alignment"
}