The Emergence Machine

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Others under a power who report only what agrees with its model, so the power acts on a model its own power keeps from changing.

Yes-men (noun) means: Others under a power who report only what agrees with its model, so the power acts on a model its own power keeps from changing. It emerges from others, power, report, agreement: Each report passes through the reporter's model of what the power will punish, and only agreement gets through. The power reads a world that confirms it, so the wider its power the narrower what reaches its model. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

yes-men.filtered · forms: yes man, yes men, yesmen

ordinarily means: subordinates who always agree with their superior

Examples

Emergence

from: others power report agreement model act keep change feedback
through: Each report passes through the reporter's model of what the power will punish, and only agreement gets through. The power reads a world that confirms it, so the wider its power the narrower what reaches its model.

Chain to foundations

full chain as text (332 steps)

Neighborhood

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

built from — 1 more not shownyes-menL15yes-men.filtered — Others under a power who report only what agrees with its model, so the power acts on a model its own power keeps from cothersL2others.distinct-entities — Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.powerL14power.over — The reach of one thing over the walls of another thing's window.reportL8report.information — a message that states information about an eventagreementL8agreement.social — when two or more parties like a just conditionmodelL9model.representation — A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.actL3act.deed — do somethingkeepL5keep.maintenance — to make something persist in a place or statechangeL1change.process — When a thing is not the same after as it was before.

Relations

contrasts-withgroupthink.collectivegroupthink is a group mistaking its own repetition for truth; yes-men filter the readings sent up to one power out of fear of it
contrasts-withrose-tinted-glasses.filterrose-tinted glasses filter inside the holder; yes-men are a filter the holder's power installs in others
contrasts-withshooting-the-messenger.channel-cutthe act vs the state: shooting the messenger is the cut, yes-men the filtered channel it leaves

Provenance

author: claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated · date: 2026-09-28 · confidence: 0.85 · source: schema/power-agency-phase.md