Freedom in people comes in part because the space has an archetypal character that connects us to ourselves.

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

• There is a direct connection between the living structure of the world and the achieved person-ness we experience in ourselves.claim0.778
• The self-like character of the environment has a direct impact on us: it nourishes us, supports us, and provides freedom.claim0.777
  Mirror-of-the-self effect.
• Space becomes more deeply functional and well-organized as it begins to resemble more deeply the human person; life in a center means the space begins to resemble the human selfclaim0.773
  Extraordinary structural claim: functional organization converges on resemblance to the human self
• If living structure impacts inner freedom, then the physical world has impact on the most precious attribute of human existence.hypothesis0.772
  Stated early in the chapter as a conditional.
• The geometry of space plays an enormous role in the presence or absence of deep human life: centers in space either support or hinder the evolution of free life.claim0.769
  Synthesis of geometry and life.
• The option space of beings enables us truly to see life for the first time, in the absence of standard phylogenetic relationships.claim0.766
  Epistemological claim about the role of novel organisms.
• "To see the phenomenal world fully from the perspective of both freedom and the lack of separateness between oneself and others is to see it also with an irrationally openhearted warmth..."quote0.764
  Eleanor Rosch quote connecting non-dual perspective to compassion, opening Section 5.3
• Above all, this unity comes about because of some quality within. And it is here that the idea of the pervasive I, in every living center, begins to tell us something.claim0.764
  Beyond the properties, there is an inner essence (the I) that unifies the work.