# self-deception (split)

a system holding two self-models with no shared window, reading the one the parameter is inside, so no single model is ever asked for the truth.

- Computed level: L15 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: epistemic

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [system](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-system.organized), [hold](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hold.physical), [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive), [self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self.personal), [model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-model.representation), [share](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-share.distribution), [window](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window.range), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [parameter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-parameter.condition), [inside](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-inside.spatial), [single](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-single.quantity), [ever](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ever.temporal), [asks](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-asks.social), [truth](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-truth.epistemic)

**Through:** Two self-models with disjoint windows are consulted selectively, whichever currently contains the parameter, so every individual reading is locally honest while the system as a whole never confronts a contradiction.

**Novel properties:**
- lie-free falsehood
- selective model consultation
- distributed contradiction

## Examples
- A gambler keeps a vivid account of wins for company and a separate ledger of losses that is never opened on winning days. *(psychology)*
- A company's investor deck and its internal risk register describe the same product without contradiction because no meeting reads both. *(business)*
- A dieter counts the week as clean by consulting weekday meals only, weekends belonging to a different story. *(psychology)*

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