# blind spot (model)

*Ordinarily means:* a part of your view that you cannot see, even though it is there

a place where a self-model is wrong about what it can see, making trust drift beyond the boundary of what is actually observed

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: perception and self-awareness  ·  Arena: cognitive model alignment

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive), [trust](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-trust.reliance), [drift](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-drift.aimless), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [window](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window.range)

**Through:** self-model fails to account for a boundary, allowing trust to drift into unseen space

**Novel properties:**
- blindness_to_blindness

## Examples
- The 2008 financial crisis emerged as credit rating agencies trusted their own models over actual mortgage default risks. *(economics)*
- The Hubble Space Telescope initially misaligned star positions due to a flaw its designers failed to detect in pre-launch tests. *(engineering)*
- A driver changes lanes without seeing a motorcyclist in the side mirror's blind spot, despite clear visibility otherwise. *(everyday life)*

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