# shell-shocked (stunned)

*Ordinarily means:* dazed and unable to respond after a sudden shock

A self model with no reading of its reach after a sudden crossing, so it does not act though acting is within its reach.

- Computed level: L20 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive), [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [sudden](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sudden.temporal), [cross](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-cross.pass), [act](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-act.deed)

**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.

**Novel properties:**
- a reading erased rather than lowered
- stillness that lasts only until the model reads again

## 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)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-shell-shocked.stunned.json*  
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