# hubris (overreach)

A self-model reading its own reach as wider than it is and acting on that reading against a near wall it cannot set, until the wall stops it.

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

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

**Through:** Real reach, over-read, is spent past its edge; because the thing actually acts, the wall answers, and the ending is caused by the gap between the reading and the reach.

**Novel properties:**
- an over-reading that is acted on
- the wall as the correction
- a fall caused by the self-model rather than by drift

## Examples
- In Aeschylus's The Persians, the ghost of Darius condemns Xerxes for yoking the Hellespont with a bridge of boats, an overreach followed by defeat at Salamis. *(literature)*

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