Mind · Dynamics
Crossripening
Development in one area makes development in another newly possible
Definition
Mechanism
A change in one capacity or setting supplies something another developmental path lacked, such as a prerequisite, access, support, a distinction or a way of practising, so that the second path gains an opportunity for development it did not have before. The second development need not then occur, and parallel improvement without such a contribution is not an instance.
Invariants
- The contribution crosses two distinguishable areas of development.
- It changes what development is possible in the receiving area.
Risks
Failure modes
Coincidence read as enabling
two areas improving at once are taken as one enabling the other.
Possibility read as certainty
a newly possible development is assumed to happen.
Relationships
Root pattern: builds on nothing in this library.
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference