wishful thinking · substitution
Ask Prometheusa reading replaced by the wanted value, undetectable downstream because the model's report carries no mark of where it came from.
Wishful thinking (noun) means: a reading replaced by the wanted value, undetectable downstream because the model's report carries no mark of where it came from. It emerges from read, want, value, report: The wanted value is written where a reading should be, at no cost of measurement; every process downstream consumes reports without provenance, so the substitution propagates exactly as if it had been read. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
ordinarily means: believing something is true because you want it to be
Examples
- The schedule says June because June was needed, and procurement, sincerely, plans from the schedule. projects
- The invasion plan consumes intelligence that was written from the plan. military
- The patient hears that the odds are good because good was the word brought to the appointment. medicine
Emergence
- want written as reading
- provenance-free reports
- substitution invisible downstream
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (198 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.