One lake feels more alive than another—a clear mountain lake feels more alive than a stagnant pond.

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• We recognize degrees of life or health in ecological systems, and one meadow feels more alive than another.claim0.777
  Shows that the feeling of life also applies to whole ecosystems.
• But this lake, even though it allows happiness to exist, is much closer to tears. If you have tears, you can feel them at the sight of the lake, or of the wind ruffles on the surface of the water. Its very existence in the school even allows your tears.claim0.774
  The physical environment of the lake at Eishin campus creates a space where sadness can surface, unlike a typical asphalt playground.
• "The lake has started breathing. Let's enjoy it tomorrow together."quote0.753
  Closing line of Hosoi's letter, capturing the aliveness achieved by the Eishin lake.
• To make a pond have life, we must have a clear inner feeling of what life in the pond will be like, beyond ecological knowledge.claim0.742
• When I make something which has wholeness or life, I become more alive; when I make something dead, I become less alive.claim0.738
• The feeling that there is more life in one case than another is correlated with a structural difference in the things themselves, which can be made precise and measured.claim0.735
  Forward‑looking claim that the life quality has an objective basis, to be demonstrated later.
• The feeling a place presents to us is a measure of its life.claim0.735
  Epistemological claim that phenomenological response is the primary yardstick for evaluating living structure.
• A larger mind that is more conscious in the relevant sense could contain a greater amount of maximally-intense hedonic experience than a smaller mindhypothesis0.732
  Addresses the possibility of an in-principle maximum of hedonic intensity for mind scale