Mind · Dynamics
Mirrorbloom
A self-representation changes its maker, so the next self-representation concerns a subject partly shaped by the earlier one
Definition
Mechanism
A person or agent makes a representation of itself and responds to it in ways that change its conduct or self-understanding, and those changes become part of the subject of a later self-representation, linking successive representations through their effects on the represented self. The representation must take part in changing the self, and that change must enter a later representation; successive snapshots with no such influence are not an instance. The representation can be a portrait, a narrative or a classification.
Invariants
- A self-representation takes part in changing the represented self.
- That change enters a later self-representation.
Risks
Failure modes
Self-confirmation as evidence
confirmation that a description helped produce is taken as independent evidence.
Recursion as improvement
recursive self-description is assumed to make the self more accurate or better off.
Caution
Steering surface — a tampered self-record shapes the conduct that later confirms it, so the integrity of self-descriptions must be enforced.
Relationships
Root pattern: builds on nothing in this library.
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference