# wake-up call (restart)

*Ordinarily means:* an event that makes you finally pay attention to a problem

an event that does not correct the model but restarts the reading, leaving the correction to the one it rouses.

- Computed level: L12 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: model and reality

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [event](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-event.occurrence), [model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-model.representation), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [start](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-start.action), [sleep](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sleep.biological), [report](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-report.information), [drift](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-drift.aimless)

**Through:** 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
- A mild heart attack changes a diet that years of advice did not, though it contains less information than any of the advice. *(health)*
- A lost longtime client tells the firm little except how long it has been since anyone asked the others. *(business)*
- A near-miss finding triggers the audit that every schedule had deferred. *(infrastructure)*

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