People are almost lost, like zombies, in giant warehouse stores, unable to tell what is troubling them.

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

• When I look at a thing which has a living quality, sometimes I am aware of it, almost as if it is faintly glowing.quote0.719
  Alexander's direct experience of the luminous quality in living things.
• OUR NEIGHBORHOOD MUST BE FIT FOR INSECTS. IT IS THE INSECTS WHICH ARE IMPORTANT. WE WANT A WORLD IN WHICH OUR INSECTS ARE PRESERVED.quote0.705
  Slogan from the Chikusadai community, expressing their core value of preserving life.
• "It is certainly very hard, and perhaps impossible, for mere humans to anticipate and rule out in advance all the disastrous ways the machine could choose to achieve a specified objective."quote0.702
  Russell's statement opening Section 2 articulating the core motivation for the Contemplative AI approach
• To be whole, a building must be 'lost' in its surroundings—not separate, but part and parcel of them.claim0.701
  Defines the paradoxical quality of a living whole in architecture.
• Big buildings overwhelm us not because of size but because the LEVELS OF SCALE are missing; in nature, they always preserve scale in relation to us.claim0.700
  Interpretation that the absence of hierarchical scaling is the reason modern buildings feel inhuman.
• 'What do they look like?' and 'Where did they come from?' are even worse guides to moral relationships with forthcoming beings than they have always been between humans.claim0.698
  Argues that physical appearance and origin (evolved vs. engineered) are inadequate bases for moral concern
• In each of us, a person is existing, or waiting to exist; the most free version of that person occasionally appears briefly.claim0.698
• Once a room is in position with size and location fixed, it is too late to give it real feeling or true meaning.claim0.697
  Emphasizes the primacy of position.