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The attention needed to achieve mechanical perfection drives out the possibility of paying attention to real perfection or adaptation in the centers.

The two goals conflict.

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Specific light yellowish green glaze irreplaceable for living structure
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A unique green glaze created the necessary harmony in a tile floor; when the manufacturer discontinued it, no alternative could replicate the living field.

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How Living Process Generates The Process Of Construction
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Chapter 15 of Vol. 3, arguing that the living quality of buildings depends on a process of making that allows continuous feedback and adaptation.

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To get wholeness, you must strive for perfection where the things which matter less are left more rough, and the things which matter more are given deep attention.claim0.812
Roughness in non-essentials allows concentration on essentials.
The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.800
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The 20th-century ideal of uniform exact dimensions and surfaces, which Alexander argues drives out real life.
"We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity."concept0.793
Alexander, Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964); establishes design's relationship to intelligence amplification and early AI discourse.
To get wholeness, you must try instead to strive for a perfection where the things which matter less are left more rough, and the things which matter more are given deep attention.quote0.784
Core principle of wabi-to-sabi in building.
"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."quote0.782
Russell's statement opening Section 2 articulating the core motivation for the Contemplative AI approach
How, in practice, can a person keep paying attention to the whole; how can one achieve successful differentiation and structure-enhancing transformations at every step?question0.781
"[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.780
Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem