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Alexander's reconciliation: Cartesian method for machine-like phenomena, wholeness method for relative wholeness judgments
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- Alexander's critique of Cartesian epistemology as structurally incapable of perceiving living structure
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- The core framework introduced in this chapter: using the observer's experienced inner wholeness as an objective measuring instrument for the degree of life in external systems
- Alexander's prospective claim about the long-term scientific significance of the second method
- Alexander's proposed alternative: wholeness of the world and feeling of happiness together form a single unity
- Alexander claims his method is a genuine alternative to Cartesian observation.
- The method of observing the world as if it were a machine, separating the observer from the observed, leading to mechanistic knowledge.
- The dominant scientific paradigm Alexander seeks to supplement: observation of limited machine-like events from an external, self-excluded standpoint
- Alexander's reverential framing of Descartes before proposing to extend his method
- The constraints under which second-order perception leads to phenomenology are not yet fully developedconcept0.760CIMC acknowledges the constraints on second-order perception that produce phenomenology are beyond the current whitepaper's scope