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claim:gold-feels-alive-due-to-its-peculiar-yellow-color-not-because-of-monetary-valueGold feels alive due to its peculiar yellow color, not because of monetary value.
Further evidence that the feeling of life inheres in the substance itself.
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- The fundamental thesis of the chapter and the book, redefining life as a universal spatial quality.
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- Shows that even among organisms we perceive degrees of life.
- Kimi's self-description of a 100-rated feature, illustrating discordance with text-evaluation which rated it 'melancholic'
- The experience of encountering a work where the I shines through is an encounter with genuine life.
- Alexander's direct experience of the luminous quality in living things.
- Central aesthetic claim illustrated by the picture sequence in section 7.
- Genuine life in an artwork or building contains an awareness of its own finitude, which manifests as sadness.