The self and the tree are entangled; the connection is a real, non-mental entity that exists in the same substance.

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

• 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.quote0.815
  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.claim0.811
  Central thesis of the chapter: the feeling of connection is literal and fundamental.
• Why do I feel that my self is more connected to a tree and less connected to a parking lot?question0.776
  The core problem of relatedness.
• There is a direct connection between the living structure of the world and the achieved person-ness we experience in ourselves.claim0.772
• The relatedness felt by traditional people is literally true, not a poetic fiction; they were aware of a factual entanglement with the world.claim0.760
  Rehabilitates animistic and premodern worldviews as reporting genuine reality.
• 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.claim0.758
  The causal claim that deep connectedness creates the sensation of universal harmony.
• The Self is malleable and plastic, changing radically during an organism's lifetime.claim0.752
• There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.claim0.751
  Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.