# reach (action) Each window a thing can enter, and each wall it can set, by its own action. - Computed level: L13 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction) - Status: published ยท Domain: agency ## Emergence **Emerges from:** [possibility](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-possibility.potential), [window](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window.range), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [enter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-enter.spatial), [action](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-action.deed) **Through:** Of the windows possibility leaves open, some can be entered, and some walls moved, only if the thing itself acts; that part of possibility, drawn around the thing, is its reach. It is smaller than what could happen and larger than where the thing now is. **Novel properties:** - a region drawn around an actor - the difference between what could happen and what one can make happen - the object every self-model of ability reports on ## Used by - [agency](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-agency.capacity) (L14) - [ally](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ally.aligned) (L15) - [american dream](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-american-dream.upward-reach) (L19) - [animal spirits](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-animal-spirits.urge) (L18) - [asian century](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-asian-century.claimed-future) (L19) - [bruised ego](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-bruised-ego.hurt) (L16) - [buyer's remorse](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-buyers-remorse.own-choice) (L16) - [checkmate](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-checkmate.other-set) (L15) - [chilling effect](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-chilling-effect.induced-under) (L15) - [consent](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-consent.given) (L17) - [consumer confidence](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-consumer-confidence.measured) (L17) - [control](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-control.ability) (L15) - [country in decline](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-country-in-decline.downward) (L19) - [crisis of confidence](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-crisis-of-confidence.collapse) (L20) - [deep state](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-deep-state.hidden) (L18) - [despair](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-despair.state) (L15) - [deterrence](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-deterrence.modeled-wall) (L16) - [dichotomy of control](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-dichotomy-of-control.sort) (L15) - [double bind](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-double-bind.contradictory) (L18) - [economic nationalism](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-economic-nationalism.firms) (L19) - [elite](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-elite.few) (L17) - [enemy](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-enemy.against) (L15) - [fear and greed](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fear-and-greed.swing) (L18) - [fear](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fear.nearing-wall) (L15) - [flight to safety](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-flight-to-safety.pulled-in) (L18) - [helicopter parenting](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-helicopter-parenting.never-withdrawn) (L16) - [hobson's choice](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hobsons-choice.one-option) (L18) - [hope](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hope.emotional) (L15) - [hubris](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hubris.overreach) (L16) - [hunger for change](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hunger-for-change.appetite) (L16) - [illusion of control](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-illusion-of-control.over) (L16) - [impostor syndrome](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-impostor-syndrome.validation) (L21) - [investor sentiment](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-investor-sentiment.read) (L18) - [learned helplessness](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-learned-helplessness.under) (L15) - [locus of control](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-locus-of-control.attribution) (L15) - [loophole](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-loophole.unmodelled) (L18) - [loyalty](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-loyalty.kept) (L17) - [miracle economy](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-miracle-economy.outran-model) (L19) - [mood of the country](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-mood-of-the-country.read) (L16) - [morale](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-morale.collective) (L16) --- *Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action* *Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action.json* *Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*