animal spirits · urge
Ask PrometheusThe reading, kept across the members of a market, that their reach is large, which moves them to act before any model says where the walls are.
Animal spirits (noun) means: The reading, kept across the members of a market, that their reach is large, which moves them to act before any model says where the walls are. It emerges from morale, reach, model, read: Action that no calculation settles still happens because members share a read of wide reach; when that read fails, action stops though the walls have not moved. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 18, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- Keynes, in his 1936 General Theory, attributed much investment to animal spirits, 'a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction'. economics
Emergence
through: Action that no calculation settles still happens because members share a read of wide reach; when that read fails, action stops though the walls have not moved.
- action that runs ahead of its model
- an economy moved by a mood
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (435 steps)
- animal spiritsL18
- moraleL16
- collective selfL15
- self-modelL14
- memberL7
- groupsL5
- modelL9
- keepL5
- acrossL13
- readL7
- subjectL5
- reachL13
- readL7
- memberL7
- timeL0
- keepL5
- acrossL13
- collective selfL15
- reachL13
- modelL9
- readL7
- keepL5
- acrossL13
- memberL7
- marketL17
- largeL3
- motionL2
- actL3
- timeL0
- saysL8
- wallL8
- moraleL16
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | confidence.width | confidence reports the model's range as narrow; animal spirits act where no model is held |
| contrasts-with | crisis-of-confidence.collapse | the same shared read, falling instead of holding |