willpower · override
Ask Prometheusmaintenance paid from limited energy to hold the parameter inside a window that the pattern would carry it out of, a cost paid each time because the window itself never moves.
Willpower (noun) means: maintenance paid from limited energy to hold the parameter inside a window that the pattern would carry it out of, a cost paid each time because the window itself never moves. It emerges from maintenance, pay, payment, limit: Each excursion the pattern attempts is countered by a separate draw on a finite energy store, so the parameter stays inside the window only for as long as the payments continue, because nothing about the window or the pattern has changed. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 19, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- Dieters who resist snacks all day give in at night, each refusal having been paid for separately. psychology
- A smoker quitting by willpower renegotiates the same decision at every break, while one who avoids the shop decides once. psychology
- Late in a long shift, decisions drift toward the default option that costs nothing to choose. institutions
Emergence
- per-crossing cost
- finite override budget
- structure-preserving restraint
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (382 steps)
- willpowerL19
- maintenanceL14
- payL18
- paymentL17
- limitL15
- energyL0
- holdL13
- parameterL4
- insideL5
- windowL7
- patternL0
- carryingL5
- costL8
- workL3
- lossL2
- changeL1
- differenceL1
- productsL3
- timeL0
- neverL1
- motionL2
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | habit.grooved | habit runs cheap and unconsulted; willpower pays retail for every excursion it blocks |