shell-shocked · stunned
Ask PrometheusA self model with no reading of its reach after a sudden crossing, so it does not act though acting is within its reach.
Shell-shocked (adjective) means: A self model with no reading of its reach after a sudden crossing, so it does not act though acting is within its reach. It emerges from self-model, reach, read, time: A crossing faster than the model can follow wipes its reading of reach; until it reads again the self does not act, whatever its reach is. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 20, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
ordinarily means: dazed and unable to respond after a sudden shock
Examples
- Shell shock was the First World War term for soldiers' collapse under bombardment; the figurative 'shell-shocked' now describes anyone stunned by a sudden blow. history
Emergence
through: A crossing faster than the model can follow wipes its reading of reach; until it reads again the self does not act, whatever its reach is.
- a reading erased rather than lowered
- stillness that lasts only until the model reads again
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (400 steps)
- shell-shockedL20
- self-modelL14
- reachL13
- readL7
- seeL6
- informationL6
- entitiesL4
- timeL0
- suddenL19
- crossL4
- actL3
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | learned-helplessness.under | learned helplessness is taught by repeated failure and lasts; shell-shocked follows one sudden crossing and passes |
| contrasts-with | shock-doctrine.exploit | the state the shock doctrine acts within |