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Space is a material whose most important feature is its capacity to form centers.

Reiteration of a key premise from Book 1 within the new metaphysical framework.

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The Blazing One
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Chapter 6 of Volume 4, The Luminous Ground, by Christopher Alexander. The chapter introduces the I-hypothesis, the plenum of I, and the Blazing One as the ultimate source of life in architecture.

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Matter-space must be potentially living, center-making, possibly even conscious stuff.claim0.852
A key proposition for the new cosmology: space-matter has the inherent capacity for life and self-connection when centers intensify.
Space becomes more deeply functional and well-organized as it begins to resemble more deeply the human person; life in a center means the space begins to resemble the human selfclaim0.825
Extraordinary structural claim: functional organization converges on resemblance to the human self
We need to understand space as a material which is capable of awakening. This is what I shall later refer to as 'the ground'.claim0.809
Introduces the concept of the ground as the innately alive substrate of reality.
The objective oneness of space which I have identified as the field of centers is also entirely personal in nature.claim0.807
The startling conclusion that the deep structure of space is simultaneously the most intimate, vulnerable, personal thing.
"It is this substance which permits — OR DOES NOT PERMIT — the emergence of living centers in the material, and the adaptation of fine structure that is needed to bring the larger whole to life."quote0.803
Alexander's foundational assertion connecting material substance directly to living structure.
The field of centers, or some version of it, is a recursive structure in space which serves as the bridge between matter and consciousness.claim0.800
The claim that the field of centers is the mechanism linking matter and mind.
Certain configurations of centers have such organizing force that they create entirely new levels of intensity within the centers themselves and utterly transmute the material character of space.hypothesis0.799
Suggests that sufficiently intense fields of centers transcend ordinary matter.
A thing which has the field of centers always does make a person near it feel more whole.claim0.799