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buyer's remorse · own-choice

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A self model reading a choice it made soon before as a wall it set on itself, now the choice is out of its reach.

Buyer's remorse (noun) means: A self model reading a choice it made soon before as a wall it set on itself, now the choice is out of its reach. It emerges from self-model, set, regret, read: The self is both the setter and the one whose walls are set; the report comes soon after choosing, when the other path is still vivid but no longer open. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

buyers-remorse.own-choice · forms: buyer remorse, buyers remorse, voters remorse

ordinarily means: regret felt soon after making a purchase or decision

Examples

Emergence

from: self-model set regret read choice make soon time wall reach
through: The self is both the setter and the one whose walls are set; the report comes soon after choosing, when the other path is still vivid but no longer open.

Chain to foundations

full chain as text (406 steps)

Neighborhood

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

built from — 2 more not shownbuyer's remorseL16buyers-remorse.own-choice — A self model reading a choice it made soon before as a wall it set on itself, now the choice is out of its reach.self-modelL14self-model.reflexive — A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.setL9set.fix — To make a wall or the value of a parameter stay in one place.regretL15regret.emotional — A self-model comparing the path taken against a parameter whose window included another path that was possible but not treadL7read.information — when entities sees and makes informationchoiceL9choice.decision — an option that is selected among other optionsmakeL4make.verb — Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.soonL6soon.temporal — in a short time after nowtimeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.

Relations

is-aregret.emotionalregret, located right after one's own choice
contrasts-withsense-of-betrayal.trustedbetrayal locates the setter in another; remorse locates it in the self

Provenance

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