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Listening to Mozart's 40th symphony, something magnificent is happening; the music strikes to the core of the cosmos, not merely activating pleasure centers.

An example of an experience that the mechanistic cosmology cannot accommodate, indicating its inadequacy.

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Tacit Assumption 9: The intuition that something profound is happening in a great work of art is, in scientific terms, meaningless.
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Ninth assumption negating the deep significance of aesthetic experience within the scientific picture.

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Mozart's music improves performance on intelligence tests, problem solving, and spatial reasoning (Rauscher & Shaw)finding0.782
Scientific finding cited as analogous to the positive effect of living structure on creation.
What one must imagine is an incredible hive of activity, at every level of magnification—of music being made using more than two thirds of the 73 octaves of the electromagnetic spectrum—locally appearing as though chaotic, and yet perfectly coordinated as a whole.quote0.767
Mae-Wan Ho's beautiful description of the living organism, which Alexander cites as poetic yet still mechanistic.
To create living structure we must find our own contemporary version of the I—a new vision of the universe in which meaning exists, relatedness and self have a primary place, and which is as real for us as God was in Mozart's heart.claim0.750
The central challenge of the chapter: we need a new cosmology with the same existential weight as historical religion.
Living structure and the process of creating it has a positive effect on the process of creation, similar to the Mozart effect.claim0.740
But if the conductor is watching the orchestra, what is watching the conductor? Is this, the need to stabilize itself by observation, the reason for consciousness' reflexive nature?question0.738
Paper's open question about the self-referential structure of conscious attention
Almost every person experiences the making of wholeness, like food.claim0.738
Generalization from personal and student experience.
The beautiful balance of endless repetition and endless variation, typical in almost all of nature, and typical of the greatest of the ancient artefacts, may be coming within our grasp once again.quote0.738
Expresses the aspiration of the new production method to recover a natural quality of order.
When something works, or is functional, its space is awakened to a very high degree. It becomes alive. The space itself becomes alive.claim0.736
Core thesis of the chapter: function is an awakening of the spatial medium.