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For the first time in modern history, ways of thinking are available that make the criteria for 'living' potentially sharable and actually shared.

Asserts that the theoretical foundation laid out in the four books provides a public quality standard for sequences.

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by 1998, ~10,000 computer scientists used software patterns as common medium of discussion
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Shows how a shared pattern medium can take hold and foster autonomous evolution of ideas among a large community.

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criterion of life
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The standard derived from Book I for judging whether a structure or process is living; now claimed to be publicly sharable.

Related by similarity (8)

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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.claim0.808
Critique of modern worldview's blindness to objective life.
The judgment about life is widely shared and not idiosyncratic; it is roughly consistent from person to person.claim0.807
Contrasts with the worry that such feelings are purely private.
Every living process is, throughout its length and breadth, congruent with feeling and governed by feeling.claim0.803
Essential feature of living process, making phenomenological experience the central criterion for evaluation.
A living process is always natural, similar to the best kind of natural process, but it goes deeper and includes additional centers that naive natural process may miss.claim0.802
Positions living process as an refined version of innate human creativity, not an artificial imposition.
I believe it is a necessary state of mind, without which it is not possible to reach the purity of structure needed to create a living thing.claim0.802
The indispensability of the gift-to-God intention for creating life in buildings.
I believe such a system of living processes can be described precisely, can be made practical, and can be implemented.claim0.799
Alexander's optimistic programmatic statement for a worldwide generative system.
The existence of widely agreed‑upon lists of great buildings suggests a shared perception of life in buildings.claim0.799
Argues for intersubjective agreement about the quality of life.
"To live is to be other. It's not even possible to feel, if one feels today what he felt yesterday..."concept0.799
Fernando Pessoa epigraph capturing the core paradox: persistence requires change, yet change threatens identity.