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Fear with no located wall: a self model reporting that some wall is near without a reading of which.

Anxiety (noun) means: Fear with no located wall: a self model reporting that some wall is near without a reading of which. It emerges from fear, located, wall, near: Without a located wall the self model cannot act on the report, so it narrows its reach in all directions at once and keeps scanning. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

anxiety.unlocated · forms: anxieties, anxiety, anxious, anxiously

Emergence

from: fear located wall near self-model read report
through: Without a located wall the self model cannot act on the report, so it narrows its reach in all directions at once and keeps scanning.

Chain to foundations

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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

used bybuilt frommarket jittersL18market-jitters.near-wall — Anxiety a market reports through prices that move up and down quickly: some wall read as near, before any reading of whieconomic anxietyL20economic-anxiety.unlocated — Anxiety kept across the members of a collective self about income, prices and bills: some wall on these read as near, wianxietyL16anxiety.unlocated — Fear with no located wall: a self model reporting that some wall is near without a reading of which.fearL15fear.nearing-wall — A self model reporting a wall as near and moving nearer, so that it narrows its own reach before any crossing.locatedL10located.spatial — be at a point in spacewallL8wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.nearL2near.spatial — when the space between two things is lessself-modelL14self-model.reflexive — A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.readL7read.information — when entities sees and makes informationreportL8report.information — a message that states information about an event

Used by (2)

market jittersL18economic anxietyL20

Relations

contrasts-withfear.nearing-wallfear knows which wall

Provenance

author: claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated · date: 2026-09-29 · confidence: 0.85 · source: schema/power-agency-phase.md