The Cartesian dogma is violated by the idea that every part of space has some life, but experience itself is not violated by it.

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

• The Cartesian method of observation, by forbidding inclusion of the observer's self, systematically excludes awareness of the different degrees of life in spaceclaim0.806
  Alexander's critique of Cartesian epistemology as structurally incapable of perceiving living structure
• The environment built since the 1950s is ugly and lifeless because Cartesian measurement excludes the measurement of life.claim0.753
  A causal explanation for the failure of modern architecture.
• Human beings can violate the tendency to preserve wholeness either by acting disrespectfully toward it or by failing to perceive it accurately, which explains why modern buildings often lack living structure.claim0.744
  Alexander's explanation for the 'temperamental' nature of the principle: it can be overridden by human agency
• Life itself is a recursive effect which occurs in space. It can only be understood recursively as the mutual intensification of life by life.claim0.739
  Attempts to define life-in-space without external reference.
• "To see the phenomenal world fully from the perspective of both freedom and the lack of separateness between oneself and others is to see it also with an irrationally openhearted warmth..."quote0.738
  Eleanor Rosch quote connecting non-dual perspective to compassion, opening Section 5.3
• The I exists physically, there is some plenum, not part of the physical space and matter as modeled in Cartesian science, but nevertheless there in fact.claim0.735
  Core assertion of the plenum model: the I is real, not a metaphor.
• The idea that life is an inherent attribute of space itself is not merely an artificial theoretical device but is actually true, because it is needed for the recursion in the mathematics to work consistently.hypothesis0.734
  Alexander's conditional prediction: if the recursive calculus works, then life-as-attribute-of-space must be a real feature of the universe.
• The geometry of the physical world has the most profound impact on human inner freedom and sense of life.claim0.731
  Central thesis of the chapter.