{
  "id": "blind-spot.model",
  "term": "blind spot",
  "sense": "model",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "cognitive model alignment",
  "domain": "perception and self-awareness",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "a place where a self-model is wrong about what it can see, making trust drift beyond the boundary of what is actually observed",
  "folk_gloss": "a part of your view that you cannot see, even though it is there",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "trust.reliance",
      "drift.aimless",
      "boundary.limit",
      "window.range"
    ],
    "interaction": "self-model fails to account for a boundary, allowing trust to drift into unseen space",
    "novel_properties": [
      "blindness_to_blindness"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2008 financial crisis emerged as credit rating agencies trusted their own models over actual mortgage default risks.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope initially misaligned star positions due to a flaw its designers failed to detect in pre-launch tests.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A driver changes lanes without seeing a motorcyclist in the side mirror's blind spot, despite clear visibility otherwise.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "blind spot"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — model and trust"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-blind-spot.model"
}