The I is at once the most personal, intimate thing and a single universal entity — it is personal-of-you and of-me but there is only one of it.

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

• There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.claim0.843
  Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.
• The I itself—this thing which seems so rarified, so philosophical and which somehow has a religious origin—is also entirely personal in nature.claim0.827
  The claim that the transcendent ground of existence is accessed through the most direct, childish, personal making.
• The I—that blazing one—is something which I reach only to the extent that I experience, and make manifest, my feeling.claim0.825
  Access to the deepest self is dependent on the maker expressing their own feeling, not intellectual concepts.
• The I, in some form, exists.claim0.812
  Minimal conclusion that at least one of the two versions of the I-hypothesis must be true.
• The I or ground is a real thing, something which exists in the world, perhaps attached to matter, and forms a necessary substratum to all that exists.claim0.802
• The use of 'I' is a linguistic convention to facilitate communication and should not be interpreted as a sign of self-awareness or consciousnessquote0.799
  GPT-4 ChatGPT's own response (4 May 2023) to queries about first-person pronoun use, illustrating fine-tuned self-description
• The I (Great Self)concept0.799
  The transcendent ground of all existence, the eternal self within each person, to which we appeal when judging living structure and which is revealed when we truly please ourselves.
• The I (eternal self)concept0.795
  Central metaphysical concept of the chapter: the universal ground of selfhood that living centers reflect and connect to; what makers must yearn toward to produce living structure.