# hope (emotional)

a self-model representing a currently closed window as reachable

- Computed level: L15 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: emotion  ·  Arena: hope

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [window](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window.range), [model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-model.representation), [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive), [close](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-close.spatial), [self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self.personal)

**Through:** A self-model using spatial proximity and structural openness metaphors represents a parameter's future accessibility within a critical range, even when currently out of bounds.

**Novel properties:**
- prospective reachability
- metaphorical projection of self
- temporal bridging of current closure

## Examples
- Malala Yousafzai continued her advocacy for girls' education after surviving a Taliban assassination attempt in 2012. *(everyday life)*
- The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, still transmits data from interstellar space despite diminishing power. *(engineering)*
- Cuban dissidents organized the Ladies in White marches after the 2003 Black Spring arrests to demand prisoners' release. *(institutions)*

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