# animal spirits (urge)

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.

- Computed level: L18 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [morale](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-morale.collective), [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-model.representation), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [keep](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-keep.maintenance), [across](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-across.spatial), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [market](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-market.economic), [large](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-large.size), [motion](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-motion.movement), [act](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-act.deed), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [says](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-says.speech), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end)

**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.

**Novel properties:**
- action that runs ahead of its model
- an economy moved by a mood

## Examples
- Keynes, in his 1936 General Theory, attributed much investment to animal spirits, 'a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction'. *(economics)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-animal-spirits.urge.json*  
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