{
  "id": "anxiety.unlocated",
  "term": "anxiety",
  "sense": "unlocated",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 16,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "Fear with no located wall: a self model reporting that some wall is near without a reading of which.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "fear.nearing-wall",
      "located.spatial",
      "wall.range-end",
      "near.spatial",
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "read.information",
      "report.information"
    ],
    "interaction": "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.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "nearness with no direction",
      "reach narrowed everywhere"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "fear.nearing-wall",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "fear knows which wall"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "economic-anxiety.unlocated",
    "market-jitters.near-wall"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "anxieties",
    "anxiety",
    "anxious",
    "anxiously"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-anxiety.unlocated"
}