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Argument that a non-mechanical view of matter is necessary to account for architectural facts.
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- The Blazing OnecitesChapter 6 of Volume 4, The Luminous Ground, by Christopher Alexander. The chapter introduces the I-hypothesis, the plenum of I, and the Blazing One as the ultimate source of life in architecture.
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- Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
- Positions living process as an refined version of innate human creativity, not an artificial imposition.
- Foundational assertion about user-centered origin of living structure.
- If processes are in use which have these attributes, then we may have the real possibility of a living world.hypothesis0.801Conditional statement linking the adoption of morphogenetic processes to the emergence of a living world.