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claim:experiments-can-be-devised-to-determine-what-the-wholeness-needs-where-it-is-going-and-what-contributes-to-the-life-of-the-whole

Experiments can be devised to determine what the wholeness needs, where it is going, and what contributes to the life of the whole.

Operational claim that the unfolding process can be guided by empirical feedback.

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Alexander's experiments showed different people can agree on which actions are more structure-preserving or life-bearing
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Repeated experiments demonstrating that people of good will can reach substantial agreement about the life of a design decision.

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Wholeness is a fundamental part of physics, governing the behavior of electrons in the two-slit experiment over and above mechanical forces.claim0.801
Extends the scope of wholeness to quantum mechanics, interpreting the two-slit experiment through centers.
To get wholeness, you must try instead to strive for a perfection where the things which matter less are left more rough, and the things which matter more are given deep attention.quote0.798
Core principle of wabi-to-sabi in building.
To get wholeness, you must strive for perfection where the things which matter less are left more rough, and the things which matter more are given deep attention.claim0.796
Roughness in non-essentials allows concentration on essentials.
People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.claim0.793
Almost every person experiences the making of wholeness, like food.claim0.792
Generalization from personal and student experience.
We evaluate the relative life of a process by making predictions based on thought-experiments or simulations.claim0.792
Creativity is not inserting entirely new structure but revealing what is already there, serving the wholeness.claim0.784
Reconception of creativity as attentive revelation rather than arbitrary invention.
The structure of wholeness, the more you encounter it, makes you more and more able to feel the reality and existence of the Ground.claim0.782