illusion of control · over
Ask PrometheusA self-model that reports as within its reach what no action of its own can set.
Illusion of control (noun) means: A self-model that reports as within its reach what no action of its own can set. It emerges from self-model, reach, report, action: Actions and outcomes arrive together often enough that the self-model files the outcome as its own work, and counts walls it cannot move as walls it sets. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- Craps players throw the dice harder when they want high numbers and softer for low ones. gambling
Emergence
through: Actions and outcomes arrive together often enough that the self-model files the outcome as its own work, and counts walls it cannot move as walls it sets.
- outcomes credited to actions that did not cause them
- reach read as larger than it is
- confidence without a lever
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (335 steps)
- illusion of controlL16
- self-modelL14
- reachL13
- reportL8
- messageL7
- stateL2
- happenL2
- eventL3
- informationL6
- actionL4
- setL9
- controlL15
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (1)
Relations
| contrasts-with | self-efficacy.calibrated | SELF-READ over vs accurate |
| contrasts-with | hope.emotional | hope reads a closed window as reachable; the illusion reads an unmovable wall as one's own |