# enemy (against)

A thing whose reach a self model reads as set against its own walls.

- Computed level: L15 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [against](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-against.opposition), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end)

**Through:** Reading another's reach as aimed at one's own walls turns every move of the other into a possible wall moving; the reading, once held, is hard to update because the other's calm reads as waiting.

**Novel properties:**
- another's reach read as aimed at oneself
- a reading that absorbs contrary evidence

## Used by
- [fifth column](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fifth-column.inside) (L17)
- [us versus them](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-us-versus-them.split) (L17)

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-enemy.against.json*  
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