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A sudden narrowing of the reach members of a collective self read another or the group as having, so each narrows its own reach and the narrowing comes true.

Crisis of confidence (noun) means: A sudden narrowing of the reach members of a collective self read another or the group as having, so each narrows its own reach and the narrowing comes true. It emerges from morale, trust, reach, collective self: Trust lets members act on a model instead of checking it; when the model is doubted all at once, each withdraws, and the sum of withdrawals removes the reach that was only doubted. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 20, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

crisis-of-confidence.collapse · forms: crises of confidence, crisis of confidence, loss of confidence

Examples

Emergence

from: morale trust reach collective self sudden narrow member read groups come true
through: Trust lets members act on a model instead of checking it; when the model is doubted all at once, each withdraws, and the sum of withdrawals removes the reach that was only doubted.

Chain to foundations

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Neighborhood

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

built from — 3 more not showncrisis of confidenceL20crisis-of-confidence.collapse — A sudden narrowing of the reach members of a collective self read another or the group as having, so each narrows its owmoraleL16morale.collective — The reach a collective self reads itself as having, kept across its members at one time.trustL14trust.reliance — Acting on a model of another system instead of verifying it, affordable exactly across the range where the model holds.reachL13reach.action — Each window a thing can enter, and each wall it can set, by its own action.collective selfL15collective-self.shared — A self model kept across many members, whose subject is the group they are members of, so the group reads itself as one suddenL19sudden.temporal — A change in a parameter that is shorter than the sampling interval of the observer's model, and thus unmodelled.narrowL5narrow.spatial — Having a small range between boundaries.memberL7member.social — a person that is a part of a groupreadL7read.information — when entities sees and makes information

Relations

contrasts-withcrisis-of-faith.narrativeconfidence is a read of reach; faith is trust in the narrative
contrasts-withanimal-spirits.urgethe shared read of reach, collapsing instead of driving action

Provenance

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