It really exists everywhere, it is single, underlying all things.

Claim that the plenum is universal and singular.

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Chapters (1)

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The Blazing One
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Chapter 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.

Claims (1)

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The I exists physically, there is some plenum, not part of the physical space and matter as modeled in Cartesian science, but nevertheless there in fact.
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Core assertion of the plenum model: the I is real, not a metaphor.

Related by similarity (8)

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

There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.claim0.815
Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.
In each of us, a person is existing, or waiting to exist; the most free version of that person occasionally appears briefly.claim0.805
There is something ineffable, a mystical core in things, that is deeply related to our own individual self, and this — not something else — is the true core both of matter and of architecture.claim0.797
The final, most radical claim of the chapter: the I is not a metaphor but the actual foundation of material reality.
The simplest thing which can be created, in real terms, is that thing which goes furthest to resolve, complete, hence to elaborate and underpin the structure of the world, its wholeness, which exists at that place.claim0.796
Definition of real simplicity tied to resolving the wholeness.
The quality of life exists to varying degrees in every part of space, even inanimate objects like ink and paper.claim0.794
Core claim that life is a universal, non-biological attribute of all matter.
The single criterion of whether everything is made of beings correlates accurately with the presence of life in the environment.hypothesis0.791
Testable hypothesis that the being-character is a reliable indicator of experienced life.
Every part of the world that has life, and every part of every part, becomes unique.claim0.789
Core assertion that living structure is characterized by total uniqueness of parts.
Selves exist across a continuum of persuadability.claim0.788
A system's agency is determined by the most efficient intervention strategy (reward, punishment, argument).