Conceptual art is the very last thing which can attain life, because it directly contradicts the rule of unfolding.

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• Art is not a trivial or interesting practice but something utterly fundamental to our human existence and to the nature of things as they areclaim0.790
  Stakes a strong normative claim about the role of art in light of the person-stuff thesis
• The success of mystical tradition in creating life has a practical explanation: it helped the artist dissolve his images, constructs, and concepts, and focus on reality as it is—the structure of wholeness—enabling structure‑preserving steps.claim0.776
  A mechanistic bridge between religious devotion and the process of Book 2; belief in God operated as a cognitive tool to see wholeness.
• The goodness of the results is visible in the evident life and in the profound fact that unfolding generates an 'architecture'.claim0.773
  The dual validation of living process: life and the emergence of architectural order.
• Art is not merely pleasant or interesting. It has an importance that goes to the very core of the cosmology.claim0.767
  New assumption #10: art is cosmologically central.
• Conceptual buildings, not based on an unfolding process, do not fit practical human needs and stand awkwardly unrelated to their surroundings.claim0.766
  Consequence of lack of unfolding.
• Tacit Assumption 6: Art is an intense social phenomenon but has no deep importance in the physical scheme of things.claim0.766
  Sixth assumption denying art a fundamental role in the structure of the universe.
• Often the conceptual picture a person has of a place is an invented convention at odds with the wholeness that exists, and it is even difficult for modern people to see the wholeness.claim0.763
  Epistemological/phenomenological claim about perception.
• The practical crux of unfolding, the essence of every living process, is that it is above all a GEOMETRIC process.claim0.761
  Alexander's emphasis that even loose, organic forms arise from geometric transformations.