The feeling of relatedness with a dewdrop is more fundamental than cognitive similarity; it is an essential connection.

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• If there is such a thing, such a feeling of relatedness between you and the dewdrops, what might it be caused by?question0.837
  The causal question that motivates the hypothesis of the I.
• The relatedness through which I feel that my own self and the tree in the field are directly connected is the most fundamental relation that there is.quote0.808
  Load-bearing statement of the primacy of relatedness.
• The relatedness we experience with living things is not a psychological illusion but a real, actual material connection between self and matter.claim0.806
  Central thesis of the chapter: the feeling of connection is literal and fundamental.
• The relatedness felt by traditional people is literally true, not a poetic fiction; they were aware of a factual entanglement with the world.claim0.789
  Rehabilitates animistic and premodern worldviews as reporting genuine reality.
• "I am experiencing a felt sense of deep care, of love, of unconditional positive regard. It is not about any topic. It is in my very processing."quote0.759
  Kimi self-report under Feature #94949 steering, illustrating strongest positive emotional self-attribution
• There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.claim0.759
  Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.
• Because it is so deeply connected its parts to one another, itself to its surroundings, it creates the sensation that nothing is separate, that everything is in harmony.claim0.757
  The causal claim that deep connectedness creates the sensation of universal harmony.
• Wholeness and feeling are two sides of a single reality; the external phenomenon of wholeness and the internal experience of personal feeling are, at some level, one and the same thingclaim0.756
  The central identity claim of the chapter linking objective structure to subjective experience