{
  "id": "shell-shocked.stunned",
  "term": "shell-shocked",
  "sense": "stunned",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 20,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A self model with no reading of its reach after a sudden crossing, so it does not act though acting is within its reach.",
  "folk_gloss": "dazed and unable to respond after a sudden shock",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "reach.action",
      "read.information",
      "time.dimension",
      "sudden.temporal",
      "cross.pass",
      "act.deed"
    ],
    "interaction": "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.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a reading erased rather than lowered",
      "stillness that lasts only until the model reads again"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "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.",
      "domain": "history"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "learned-helplessness.under",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "learned helplessness is taught by repeated failure and lasts; shell-shocked follows one sudden crossing and passes"
    },
    {
      "id": "shock-doctrine.exploit",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the state the shock doctrine acts within"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "shell shocked",
    "shellshocked"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-shell-shocked.stunned"
}