Every living structure is composed of thousands of pictures of the eternal self.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Living structure may be identified empirically by the extent to which it is a picture of one's self.claim0.835
  Alexander claims there is an empirical method for identifying living structure via reference to the universal entity within each person.
• There is nothing except the living structure of the world, and this living structure is all we need to reason with.claim0.825
  Radical assertion that function reduces to living structure, eliminating the need for external goals.
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.816
• The collage of 500 pictures shows a single invariant character common to all living structures.claim0.815
  The collage demonstrates the shared morphology of living architecture.
• A structure is truly generated, and perceived as having life, only when it has unfolded from a nice, beautiful sequence of differentiations.claim0.807
  The most profound claim of the chapter: the niceness of the sequence is directly perceptible in the built form and is the ultimate source of living quality.
• Living structure is at once structural and personal, uniting objective and subjective and potentially bridging the bifurcation of nature described by Whitehead.claim0.805
  From the concluding Part Two interlude, asserting a synthesis of science and feeling.
• The aliveness structure appears in both biological and artificial systems in recognizable form.claim0.804
• To create living structure we must find our own contemporary version of the I—a new vision of the universe in which meaning exists, relatedness and self have a primary place, and which is as real for us as God was in Mozart's heart.claim0.803
  The central challenge of the chapter: we need a new cosmology with the same existential weight as historical religion.