In discovering essential centers in any culture, one's own feelings — when one imaginatively inhabits the situation — are the most reliable measuring instrument available

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• The self is the ultimate measure of living structure; our own feeling is the only reliable instrument.claim0.803
  The epistemological grounding of the mirror-of-the-self test.
• When the field of centers is authentic, it is always personal; empty structure without personal feeling is structurally misjudgedclaim0.801
  Links structural authenticity to personal feeling as a necessary co-occurrence
• Essential centers are those already latent in the existing field — they summarize and encapsulate the essence of the real life going on, not invented but discoveredclaim0.790
  Distinguishing essential from trivial centers as the crux of making living pattern languages
• The measuring technique of observer inner feeling provides the mainstay of the claim that degree of life is an empirically observable quality in the worldclaim0.785
  Concluding methodological claim of §9 linking the measurement technique to the empirical status of life as a world-property
• The degree of personal feeling in a thing is directly proportional to the degree to which its field of centers is present and coherentclaim0.776
  Formalizes the relationship between structural coherence of field of centers and felt personal quality
• Feeling, in the context of the field of centers, is a fact — as much a fact as the radiation from the sun or the swinging of a pendulumclaim0.775
  Asserts ontological parity between physical facts and felt qualities of living structure
• Personal feeling is an objective quality inhering in things, not a subjective idiosyncratic responseclaim0.772
  Central thesis: universality of personal feeling separates it from mere subjectivity
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.768
  Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception