The things which people truly and deeply like are precisely those things which have the mirror-of-the-self property to a very high degree.

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• The things which people truly and deeply like are precisely these things which have the mirror-of-the-self property to a very high degree.quote0.975
  A precise statement of the core claim of the chapter.
• What would it mean to make something one truly likes?question0.784
  The diagnostic question for distinguishing genuine liking from artificial or conventional preference.
• These glasses have something of the self in them. Because of that, Henk liked them. And because of that, they are truly likeable.claim0.782
  Alexander's interpretation of why the blue glasses were deeply liked by the glassblower.
• Pleasing oneself, when it is truly done, leads to the most sublime, the most profound, the most truly spiritual art.claim0.777
  Alexander claims that true pleasing oneself is identical to the path intended by the greatest religious teachers.
• The Self is malleable and plastic; the subject of memories and preferences is not fixed but subject to radical change in real-time.claim0.776
  Central to TAME; challenges monadic self theory through examples of metamorphosis, regeneration, and mind-body substitution.
• "There is something ineffable, a mystical core in things, that is deeply related to our own individual self, and that THIS — not something else — is the true core both of matter and of architecture."quote0.776
  Closing statement of the Mid-Book Appendix identifying the I as the foundation of both matter and architecture.
• The more accurate we are about what we really like, in the sense of liking from the heart, the more we find out that we agree with other people about what these things are.claim0.775
  Assertion of convergence among deep personal preferences.
• The reasons for the existence of this deep liking are mysterious, not obvious. To plumb them we shall have to examine the nature of things - even, ultimately, the nature of matter itself - very carefully. Nevertheless the reasons are empirical. We may determine, empirically, to what extent a thing has the ability to rouse this deep liking in us.claim0.773
  Assertion of the empirical but mysterious basis of deep liking.