Calling it “diagonalization” is distracting for me, since I associate that so much with a particular type of strategy for reasoning through proofs. “Encapsulation” feels like another potential word for what you’ve described, though I don’t think it’s ‘better’ in the sense of being more clear to the average listener. “Trapped in the Matrix” almost feels right, but I generally don’t like using fictional references, especially since we see how that can go weirdly like with ‘redpilling’.
But, it comes to mind because of the idea of being inside a system and yet being able to have an understanding of that system which is bigger than the system itself, even potentially letting you alter the system and thus foil the its plans. Even when you are ‘diagonalized’ or ‘encapsulated’ by an agent/system, that greater agent is still itself within a greater possibility space of all possible agents/systems.
Calling it “diagonalization” is distracting for me, since I associate that so much with a particular type of strategy for reasoning through proofs. “Encapsulation” feels like another potential word for what you’ve described, though I don’t think it’s ‘better’ in the sense of being more clear to the average listener. “Trapped in the Matrix” almost feels right, but I generally don’t like using fictional references, especially since we see how that can go weirdly like with ‘redpilling’.
But, it comes to mind because of the idea of being inside a system and yet being able to have an understanding of that system which is bigger than the system itself, even potentially letting you alter the system and thus foil the its plans. Even when you are ‘diagonalized’ or ‘encapsulated’ by an agent/system, that greater agent is still itself within a greater possibility space of all possible agents/systems.