Almost all of us perceive this quality and feel it as it occurs in varying degrees in different parts of space.

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• The quality of life exists to varying degrees in every part of space, even inanimate objects like ink and paper.claim0.812
  Core claim that life is a universal, non-biological attribute of all matter.
• We feel degrees of life in different organisms, even though technically they all have equal biological life.claim0.806
  Summarizes the observation of graded life within the category of living things.
• The feeling a place presents to us is a measure of its life.claim0.800
  Epistemological claim that phenomenological response is the primary yardstick for evaluating living structure.
• It is when this happens that we may sometimes feel ourselves to be in the presence of true life, true value.claim0.799
  The experience of encountering a work where the I shines through is an encounter with genuine life.
• When I look at a thing which has a living quality, sometimes I am aware of it, almost as if it is faintly glowing.quote0.796
  Alexander's direct experience of the luminous quality in living things.
• This quality, when it appears in things, people, in a moment, in an event, is God.claim0.793
  The central theological claim that the quality without a name is not an indication of God but God itself.
• This quality is real, not merely an artifact of cognition but an objectively real physical phenomenon in space which our cognition detects.claim0.791
  Moves from subjective perception to ontological claim about the nature of space.
• We seem to have a fundamental observation - so far unexplained - that among pairs of events, bits of space, places, and particles of existence, we can usually judge that one has a greater degree of life and the other less, at least according to our feeling.quote0.785
  Summarizes the empirical bedrock of the whole argument.