There is not one singular, verifiable system of beauty, or architecture, or god, and I fear what would happen if there were.

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• I disagree with Alexander. I do not believe that there is an empirically verifiable notion of order, beauty, architecture, and god. I believe that such an idea is dangerous.claim0.800
• There is nothing except the living structure of the world, and this living structure is all we need to reason with.claim0.779
  Radical assertion that function reduces to living structure, eliminating the need for external goals.
• Although a scientific conception of universal life does not yet exist, traditional Buddhism and animistic religions treat each part of the world as having life.claim0.774
  Acknowledges precursors in non‑Western traditions.
• There is something ineffable, a mystical core in things, that is deeply related to our own individual self, and this — not something else — is the true core both of matter and of architecture.claim0.771
  The final, most radical claim of the chapter: the I is not a metaphor but the actual foundation of material reality.
• "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."quote0.766
  Closing statement of the Mid-Book Appendix identifying the I as the foundation of both matter and architecture.
• When a system of living processes acts in a human environment, two kinds of structures will appear within reach of every person: a unique private world and an attached public world.hypothesis0.766
  Predictive claim about the automatic spatial output of living process
• It is, indeed, this pattern of the middle-sized entities, which most strongly gives overall geometric order to the building. Without it, a building is very unlikely to be beautiful.claim0.766
  Identifies the pattern of middle-range entities as the primary source of overall geometric order and beauty
• Empirically verifiable connection between God and architectureconcept0.765
  Alexander's late claim that architecture can lead to empirical verification of God's reality, a stance Steenson rejects.