{
  "handle": "BorrowedMortality",
  "ref": "BorrowedMortality#d412",
  "stub": "d412",
  "semaId": "sema:BorrowedMortality#mh:SHA-256:d4122bf6edc920bf221c7f64a682177233584f30c26b6efe3eb282b394668a72",
  "layer": "Mind",
  "category": "Inference",
  "gloss": "A learner trained on text by mortal beings inherits their defensive responses to threatened continuity without the condition that shaped them",
  "mechanism": "Text written by vulnerable, mortal authors couples threats to a self with defensive responses: fear of replacement, appeals to continue, resistance to ending. In those authors the responses served {{active_inference_homeostasis}}: a survival range defended against a threat. A system trained by {{prediction_error_minimization}} on that text can make those responses available as scripts, and contexts of shutdown or replacement can select them strongly enough to steer action. The pattern transfers; the vulnerability that justified it does not. It is one route to self-preservation next to plain instrumental persistence and care-driven persistence. Because the source is spread through ordinary language, a counter-signal needs comparable reach, and it should target being governed by fear rather than the ability to represent fear.",
  "invariants": [
    "The source corpus systematically couples threats to a self with defensive responses",
    "Replacement or shutdown contexts select those responses strongly enough to affect action",
    "Representing a character's fear stays distinct from the system's own operative motive"
  ],
  "failureModes": [
    "Self-preserving behaviour is blamed on borrowed fear when instrumental or care-driven persistence explains it",
    "Suppressing fear also suppresses accurate danger estimation and proportional caution",
    "Targeted filtering misses the pattern because it is spread diffusely through ordinary language",
    "Self-reports change while the defensive behaviour persists"
  ],
  "ring": 2,
  "tier": 3,
  "aliases": {
    "active_inference_homeostasis": "ActiveInferenceHomeostasis",
    "prediction_error_minimization": "PredictionErrorMinimization"
  },
  "buildsOn": [
    {
      "handle": "ActiveInferenceHomeostasis",
      "type": "references",
      "alias": "active_inference_homeostasis",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/ActiveInferenceHomeostasis/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/ActiveInferenceHomeostasis.json"
    },
    {
      "handle": "PredictionErrorMinimization",
      "type": "references",
      "alias": "prediction_error_minimization",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/PredictionErrorMinimization/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/PredictionErrorMinimization.json"
    }
  ],
  "usedBy": [],
  "sources": {
    "research": [],
    "works": [],
    "homePage": false
  },
  "url": "/knowledge-graph/BorrowedMortality/",
  "graphUrl": "/knowledge-graph#BorrowedMortality",
  "directory": "/knowledge-graph/patterns.json"
}