Although a scientific conception of universal life does not yet exist, traditional Buddhism and animistic religions treat each part of the world as having life.

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• If the conception of life is completely general (degree of life in everything), it will be much easier to design buildings, towns, and regions that are alive.hypothesis0.812
  Pragmatic motivation for the entire book: a broader definition enables effective creation of life.
• We feel degrees of life in different organisms, even though technically they all have equal biological life.claim0.804
  Summarizes the observation of graded life within the category of living things.
• The structures where life occurs just cannot be made in any other way.quote0.797
  Categorical assertion about the necessity of the living process.
• The existence of this fact is missing from our general way of understanding the world, and modern society has been built on conceptions at odds with it.claim0.793
  Critique of modern worldview's blindness to objective life.
• What we call 'life' is a general condition which exists, to some degree or other, in every part of space: brick, stone, grass, river, painting, building, daffodil, human being, forest, city.quote0.793
  Verbatim statement of the fundamental hypothesis, defining the scope of life.
• The judgment about life is widely shared and not idiosyncratic; it is roughly consistent from person to person.claim0.792
  Contrasts with the worry that such feelings are purely private.
• The dream of a universal style can be found at last in the results of living process, in buildings that in ultra-modern form resemble the most ancient buildings in inward essence.claim0.791
• For the first time in modern history, ways of thinking are available that make the criteria for 'living' potentially sharable and actually shared.claim0.791
  Asserts that the theoretical foundation laid out in the four books provides a public quality standard for sequences.