persona · outward
Ask Prometheusa self-model made to be read by others rather than to control the thing, so it is maintained against their window and not the system's own.
Persona (noun) means: a self-model made to be read by others rather than to control the thing, so it is maintained against their window and not the system's own. It emerges from self-model, self, model, make: A second self-model is built for external readers and kept acceptable to their window, so its upkeep answers to the audience's acceptance range instead of to the system it nominally describes. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- A resume describes a career as a planned ascent that the person who lived it experienced as a series of accidents. workplace
- A restaurant's dining room stays polished while the kitchen runs on shortcuts the menu never mentions. business
- A social media profile is updated for its audience on days its owner cannot get out of bed. culture
Emergence
through: A second self-model is built for external readers and kept acceptable to their window, so its upkeep answers to the audience's acceptance range instead of to the system it nominally describes.
- audience-facing self-model
- externally anchored upkeep
- steering-free representation
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (403 steps)
- personaL16
- self-modelL14
- selfL7
- modelL9
- makeL4
- readL7
- othersL2
- controlL15
- maintenanceL14
- againstL13
- windowL7
- systemL5
- setsL3
- partL1
- structureL2
- interactionL2
- ratherL3
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | authenticity.state | persona is maintained against others' window; authenticity keeps the window over the range the system actually occupies |