second nature · native

a learned pattern whose running cost has fallen to zero, so the self-model can no longer tell it apart from what was never learned.

Second nature (noun) means: a learned pattern whose running cost has fallen to zero, so the self-model can no longer tell it apart from what was never learned. It emerges from learn, pattern, repeats, cost: Repetition drives a learned pattern's running cost toward nothing; when the cost reaches zero the self-model loses its only marker of learning, and files the pattern with what was always there. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

ordinarily means: something learned so well you do it without thinking

Examples

• A driver of twenty years cannot narrate how to parallel park, and finds teaching it harder than doing it. everyday
• A native speaker cannot state the grammar rule they never break. language
• To a homing pigeon, the learned landmarks of its loft and its inherited sun compass are one route. biology

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

Provenance