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claim:the-relative-degree-of-life-is-already-there-in-the-computable-mathematical-structure-of-the-spaceThe relative degree of life is already there, in the computable, mathematical, structure of the space.
Affirmation that life is not merely subjective but an objective, calculable feature of space.
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- Empirical computation showing that a simple arithmetic function roughly captures the perceived life of famous buildings.
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- Broadens the scope of life from aesthetics to a fundamental property.
- Part of the fundamental hypothesis, asserting empirical accessibility.
- Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
- Alexander's conditional prediction: if the recursive calculus works, then life-as-attribute-of-space must be a real feature of the universe.
- The central predictive/causal hypothesis of the book, to be tested in later chapters.
- Load-bearing assertion of objectivity, summarizing the chapter's thesis.