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claim:the-relatedness-we-experience-with-living-things-is-not-a-psychological-illusion-but-a-real-actual-material-connection-between-self-and-matter

The relatedness we experience with living things is not a psychological illusion but a real, actual material connection between self and matter.

Central thesis of the chapter: the feeling of connection is literal and fundamental.

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Findings (1)

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Mirror experiment cross-cultural agreement: people consistently choose the same objects as resembling their eternal self.
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In the mirror-of-the-self experiments, people from the same culture and even different cultures agree to a significant extent on which objects embody their eternal self.

probe (2)

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Dewdrop relatedness probe
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The opening experiential invitation to feel relatedness.
Blue hill relatedness probe
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Invitation to feel the stretching of the self toward a patch of blue in a medieval painting.

Claims (1)

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The relatedness felt by traditional people is literally true, not a poetic fiction; they were aware of a factual entanglement with the world.
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Rehabilitates animistic and premodern worldviews as reporting genuine reality.

Related by similarity (8)

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

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

There is a direct connection between the living structure of the world and the achieved person-ness we experience in ourselves.claim0.823
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.quote0.812
Load-bearing statement of the primacy of relatedness.
There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.claim0.811
Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.
The self and the tree are entangled; the connection is a real, non-mental entity that exists in the same substance.claim0.811
The core of the relatedness argument.
The feeling of relatedness with a dewdrop is more fundamental than cognitive similarity; it is an essential connection.claim0.806
Direct appeal to reader's experience.
The feeling or vision of emotional substance comes into our minds from the whole which exists.claim0.794
Buildings and objects with living structure enlarge our capacity for relatedness; those without deaden it, even in nature.claim0.792
Practical consequence for architecture and urbanism.
Artificial life will approach the illusion of self not directly, but by replicating its effect within a model.claim0.791
Claim about methodology: ALife simulates mechanisms underlying self illusion.