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There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.

Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.

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Findings (2)

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Alexander also experienced his I expanding toward the red cushion.
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The author reports the same phenomenon as McClung: his I felt larger and extended toward the red cushion.
Bill McClung's I extended beyond his body toward the red cushion.
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During the cushion experiment, Bill McClung reported that his sense of I extended beyond his body and included or moved toward the red cushion.

Hypotheses (1)

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There must be some relation between the ultimate nature of a living center and the nature of the I.
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The hypothesis that the deepest aspect of centers is identical with the I-like presence.

Questions (1)

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What is that 'something' that underlies the relatedness?
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The search for the name and nature of the presence.

Related by similarity (8)

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

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The three qualities of the I: personal, one, suffused with relatedness.
There is a direct connection between the living structure of the world and the achieved person-ness we experience in ourselves.claim0.832
To create living structure we must find our own contemporary version of the I—a new vision of the universe in which meaning exists, relatedness and self have a primary place, and which is as real for us as God was in Mozart's heart.claim0.829
The central challenge of the chapter: we need a new cosmology with the same existential weight as historical religion.
The self is the ultimate measure of living structure; our own feeling is the only reliable instrument.claim0.821
The epistemological grounding of the mirror-of-the-self test.
The capacity for everyone to enter either one from anywhere — to have both belong-to worlds to hand — is the essence of the structure that living processes will generate in society.claim0.820
Defines the ultimate spatial outcome of living process: simultaneous access to private sanctuary and public communion
The I—that blazing one—is something which I reach only to the extent that I experience, and make manifest, my feeling.claim0.817
Access to the deepest self is dependent on the maker expressing their own feeling, not intellectual concepts.
It really exists everywhere, it is single, underlying all things.claim0.815
Claim that the plenum is universal and singular.
There is nothing except the living structure of the world, and this living structure is all we need to reason with.claim0.812
Radical assertion that function reduces to living structure, eliminating the need for external goals.