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Matter itself is not a mechanism: It is a potentially soul-like materiality which is essentially what we call self.

New cosmological assumption #7: the deepest claim about the nature of matter.

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Personal quality of space
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The property that space-matter can have a self-like, personal feeling, contrary to the mechanistic view of inert matter.

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You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.
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Francis Crick's reductionist statement, cited as the epitome of the mechanistic view.

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What is, truly, the ultimate nature of matter?
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The central drumbeat question that Book 4 attempts to answer.

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In this universe, the human self, yours and mine, are indistinguishable, in their substance, from the space and matter where the play of forms occurs.
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The radical identity of self and matter.

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Matter-space must be potentially living, center-making, possibly even conscious stuff.claim0.791
A key proposition for the new cosmology: space-matter has the inherent capacity for life and self-connection when centers intensify.
There is no privileged material substrate for Selves; cognition can arise in neurons, single cells, plants, tissues, swarms, and engineered systems.claim0.785
Second foundational pillar of TAME; supports basal cognition and rejects brain-centrism.
The process itself is to be part of nature.claim0.778
The personal is not a late-comer to blind matter but has been, since the origins of time, a vital substrate underlying matterclaim0.775
The grand metaphysical thesis Alexander introduces cautiously as a direction, not a proof
Consciousness and matter are different aspects of the same reality.claim0.774
The identity hypothesis endorsed by von Weizsäcker and supported by Alexander.
The Self is malleable and plastic; the subject of memories and preferences is not fixed but subject to radical change in real-time.claim0.769
Central to TAME; challenges monadic self theory through examples of metamorphosis, regeneration, and mind-body substitution.
It is the nature of matter itself which is at stake; our despair follows from the belief that matter is machinelike.claim0.768
The root problem is the conception of matter; architecture and meaning depend on transforming this conception.
The Self is malleable and plastic, changing radically during an organism's lifetime.claim0.768