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Living structure may be identified empirically by the extent to which it is a picture of one's self.

Alexander claims there is an empirical method for identifying living structure via reference to the universal entity within each person.

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Best Self / Deep Self
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The reservoir of goodness within each person that serves as the internal reference for harmony, rightness, and the recognition of living structure.

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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.

Living structure is at once structural and personal, uniting objective and subjective and potentially bridging the bifurcation of nature described by Whitehead.claim0.851
From the concluding Part Two interlude, asserting a synthesis of science and feeling.
Living structure might even be defined as 'that which pleases us'—that which truly pleases us.claim0.838
A proposed operational definition of living structure in terms of genuine pleasure.
Living structure is enormously susceptible to minor changes, and accuracy of detail is necessary for success.claim0.835
Warning that the recursion of centers requires extreme precision.
Every living structure is composed of thousands of pictures of the eternal self.claim0.835
Conclusion drawn from the two propositions that makes the beings model explicit.
Life and living structure will appear in the world inevitably because the mathematical way space gives rise to structure necessarily reinforces wholeness as part of its most normal evolution.claim0.832
Alexander's strongest ontological claim: living structure is not probabilistically improbable but mathematically necessary given the principle of unfolding wholeness
The existence of living structure, as defined in The Nature of Order, requires modifications in our physical picture of the world, not only in the picture we have of architecture.claim0.832
The closing claim of the chapter's mid-book appendix, asserting that the theory of centers has implications for physics.
The self is the ultimate measure of living structure; our own feeling is the only reliable instrument.claim0.829
The epistemological grounding of the mirror-of-the-self test.
A structure is truly generated, and perceived as having life, only when it has unfolded from a nice, beautiful sequence of differentiations.claim0.829
The most profound claim of the chapter: the niceness of the sequence is directly perceptible in the built form and is the ultimate source of living quality.