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A self model reporting that others read its reach as smaller than it reads it, a loss to its pride that moves none of its walls.

Bruised ego (noun) means: A self model reporting that others read its reach as smaller than it reads it, a loss to its pride that moves none of its walls. It emerges from self-model, reach, pride, report: The self-read and others' read of reach diverge downward; nothing it can do has changed, only its standing in others' models, and the report is of that gap. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

bruised-ego.hurt · forms: bruised ego, bruised egos

ordinarily means: hurt pride after a setback or slight

Examples

Emergence

from: self-model reach pride report others read small loss motion none wall
through: The self-read and others' read of reach diverge downward; nothing it can do has changed, only its standing in others' models, and the report is of that gap.

Chain to foundations

full chain as text (360 steps)

Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

built from — 3 more not shownbruised egoL16bruised-ego.hurt — A self model reporting that others read its reach as smaller than it reads it, a loss to its pride that moves none of itself-modelL14self-model.reflexive — A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.reachL13reach.action — Each window a thing can enter, and each wall it can set, by its own action.prideL15pride.state — a self-model reporting that one's parameters are within a window where few others are, defined by a model of what is norreportL8report.information — a message that states information about an eventothersL2others.distinct-entities — Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.readL7read.information — when entities sees and makes informationsmallL4small.size — a thing that is less extent than most other thingslossL2loss.economic — When a thing that was here is not here after, there is a difference.

Relations

contrasts-withshame.emotionalshame reports a near wall; a bruised ego reports only a lowered read of its reach
contrasts-withrestore-dignity.statusthe report that restoring dignity answers

Provenance

author: claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated · date: 2026-09-29 · confidence: 0.85 · source: schema/power-agency-phase.md