{
  "id": "self-model.reflexive",
  "term": "self-model",
  "sense": "reflexive",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "E14",
  "domain": "psychology",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "model.representation",
      "hold.physical",
      "subject.entity"
    ],
    "interaction": "A compressing system turns its compression on itself and acts on the result.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "reflexive reference",
      "self-directed modeling",
      "integrated self-reference"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The human brain continuously updates its internal map of the body's position using sensory feedback from muscles and joints.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "An autonomous drone adjusts its flight path based on a real-time simulation of its own motion and sensor inputs.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2020, Twitter’s algorithm began flagging misinformation by referencing its own prior content moderation decisions.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "model.representation",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a self-model is a model with a reflexive subject"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "ahead-of-its-time.premature",
    "authenticity.state",
    "blind-spot.model",
    "comfort-zone.named",
    "despair.state",
    "doubt.epistemic",
    "gut-feeling.trust",
    "hindsight-is-twenty-twenty.retrospection",
    "hope.emotional",
    "identity.self",
    "legacy-code.unmeasured",
    "lost-the-plot.drift",
    "mission-creep.drift",
    "pride.state",
    "regret.emotional",
    "responsibility.moral",
    "sanity-check.trust",
    "self-fulfilling-prophecy.stacked-dependency",
    "shame.emotional",
    "team-spirit.excess",
    "the-three-tiers.structure",
    "the-way-we-have-always-done-it.path"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "self-model",
    "self-models"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "hand",
    "date": "2026-07-31",
    "confidence": 1.0,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Removed 'self.personal' (not constitutive per definition); added 'hold.physical' and 'subject.entity' as genuinely constitutive concepts omitted from original record."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive"
}