# we built this (maker-claim)

*Ordinarily means:* a claim that a group made something and so has the right to decide about it

A collective self reading a current thing as made by its own past work, so the walls on it read as its own to set.

- Computed level: L19 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [current](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-current.present), [make](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-make.verb), [past](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-past.temporal), [work](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-work.effort), [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), [narrative](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrative.self-story), [agency](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-agency.capacity), [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive)

**Through:** The narrative traces a current thing back to the group's labour; making is then read as a title, so others setting walls on the thing read as setting walls on the group's own window.

**Novel properties:**
- ownership read from past making
- others' rules on the thing heard as rules on the self
- a claim of agency over a shared outcome

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-we-built-this.maker-claim*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-we-built-this.maker-claim.json*  
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