{
  "id": "wake-up-call.restart",
  "term": "wake-up call",
  "sense": "restart",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "domain": "model and reality",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "an event that does not correct the model but restarts the reading, leaving the correction to the one it rouses.",
  "folk_gloss": "an event that makes you finally pay attention to a problem",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "event.occurrence",
      "model.representation",
      "read.information",
      "start.action",
      "sleep.biological",
      "report.information",
      "drift.aimless"
    ],
    "interaction": "A single event lands hard enough to show that no readings have been taken; the event itself carries almost no information about the drift, only that there has been some, so reading must resume to find out how much.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "reading restarted by event",
      "correction left to the roused",
      "alarm without content"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A mild heart attack changes a diet that years of advice did not, though it contains less information than any of the advice.",
      "domain": "health"
    },
    {
      "text": "A lost longtime client tells the firm little except how long it has been since anyone asked the others.",
      "domain": "business"
    },
    {
      "text": "A near-miss finding triggers the audit that every schedule had deferred.",
      "domain": "infrastructure"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "wake up call"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-08-22",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — the model meets reality"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wake-up-call.restart"
}