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How near a wall the members of a collective self will act, read from what they choose: wider as their reach reads large, narrower as walls read near.

Risk appetite (noun) means: How near a wall the members of a collective self will act, read from what they choose: wider as their reach reads large, narrower as walls read near. It emerges from collective self, reach, near, wall: Choices of what to hold are read as a statement of how close to the wall members are willing to go; that closeness tracks the shared read of reach and of wall nearness. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

risk-appetite.width · forms: appetite for risk, risk appetite, risk appetites

Examples

Emergence

from: collective self reach near wall member act read choose wide large narrow
through: Choices of what to hold are read as a statement of how close to the wall members are willing to go; that closeness tracks the shared read of reach and of wall nearness.

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 shownrisk appetiteL16risk-appetite.width — How near a wall the members of a collective self will act, read from what they choose: wider as their reach reads large,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 reachL13reach.action — Each window a thing can enter, and each wall it can set, by its own action.nearL2near.spatial — when the space between two things is lesswallL8wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.memberL7member.social — a person that is a part of a groupactL3act.deed — do somethingreadL7read.information — when entities sees and makes informationchooseL10choose.decision — to select a choice among others

Relations

contrasts-withsafety.securitysafety is distance from a wall bought by narrowing; risk appetite is how much of that distance is given up
contrasts-withflight-to-safety.pulled-inthe flight is risk appetite falling all at once

Provenance

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