rationalization · backfill
Ask Prometheusa cause made after the act so that the act reads as inside the self-model's window, a story that edits the event rather than the model.
Rationalization (noun) means: a cause made after the act so that the act reads as inside the self-model's window, a story that edits the event rather than the model. It emerges from self-model, self, model, cause: After the act has happened, a cause is constructed that places it inside the self-model's window, so the event is rewritten to fit the model instead of the model updating to fit the event. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- Split-brain patients whose right hemisphere triggered an action immediately produce a fluent verbal reason invented by the left. neuroscience
- After buying the more expensive option, shoppers rate the rejected alternative lower than they rated it before choosing. psychology
- A postmortem written to protect the roadmap concludes that the outage validated the team's architecture decisions. engineering
Emergence
through: After the act has happened, a cause is constructed that places it inside the self-model's window, so the event is rewritten to fit the model instead of the model updating to fit the event.
- after-the-fact causation
- event edited to fit
- update-proof self-model
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (359 steps)
- rationalizationL15
- self-modelL14
- selfL7
- modelL9
- causeL3
- changeL1
- interactionL2
- happenL2
- makeL4
- actL3
- readL7
- insideL5
- windowL7
- storyL13
- editL7
- eventL3
- ratherL3
- timeL0
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | hindsight-is-twenty-twenty.retrospection | rationalization edits the past event to fit the model; hindsight lets the past event finally correct the model - the same look back, opposite direction of edit |