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A wall a collective self sets against a thing from a felt reading alone, which persists against any model that reads the thing as good.

Ick factor (noun) means: A wall a collective self sets against a thing from a felt reading alone, which persists against any model that reads the thing as good. It emerges from collective self, set, model, wall: The wall is set by feeling rather than by a model, so arguments about harm act on a different part of the self from the one holding the wall. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

ick-factor.aversion · forms: ick factor, yuck factor

ordinarily means: an instinctive feeling of disgust that makes people reject something

Examples

Emergence

from: collective self set model wall against feel read alone persist good
through: The wall is set by feeling rather than by a model, so arguments about harm act on a different part of the self from the one holding the wall.

Chain to foundations

full chain as text (350 steps)

Neighborhood

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

built from — 2 more not shownick factorL17ick-factor.aversion — A wall a collective self sets against a thing from a felt reading alone, which persists against any model that reads thecollective 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 setL9set.fix — To make a wall or the value of a parameter stay in one place.modelL9model.representation — A pattern in one thing that is like another thing, so that acting on the pattern can say what the other thing will do.wallL8wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.againstL13against.opposition — a thing that is different from another and does not go toward itfeelL16feel.sensory — to notice a state in a bodyreadL7read.information — when entities sees and makes informationaloneL3alone.state — a state where it is in a place and no others are in that place

Relations

contrasts-withfear.nearing-wallfear reports a wall near the self; the ick factor sets a wall against a thing
contrasts-withunspoken-rule.silencean unspoken rule is a hidden group wall on speech; the ick factor is a felt group wall on acceptance

Provenance

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