perfectionism · zero-width
Ask Prometheusa self-model whose window has been narrowed to nothing, so each parameter value reads as outside and maintenance never stops.
Perfectionism (noun) means: a self-model whose window has been narrowed to nothing, so each parameter value reads as outside and maintenance never stops. It emerges from self-model, self, model, window: The acceptance window is narrowed until it has no interior, so no achievable parameter value can ever register as inside, and the corrective maintenance that a window normally terminates runs without a stopping condition. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- A writer revises the first chapter for years because every draft reads as a failed version of the unwritten one. culture
- A pixel-perfect design review rejects every build, so the product ships on a deadline exception instead of an approval. engineering
- A gymnast scores near the maximum and files the routine with the failures. sport
Emergence
from: self-model self model window narrow nothing parameter value read outside maintenance never stop
through: The acceptance window is narrowed until it has no interior, so no achievable parameter value can ever register as inside, and the corrective maintenance that a window normally terminates runs without a stopping condition.
- uninhabitable acceptance window
- unterminating correction
- success-proof evaluation
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (381 steps)
- perfectionismL17
- self-modelL14
- selfL7
- modelL9
- windowL7
- narrowL5
- nothingL10
- parameterL4
- valueL13
- readL7
- seeL6
- informationL6
- entitiesL4
- outsideL6
- maintenanceL14
- neverL1
- stopL16
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | good-enough.threshold | perfectionism narrows the window to nothing so maintenance never stops; good-enough stops maintenance at a wall while drift is already narrowing the window |