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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.

The central challenge of the chapter: we need a new cosmology with the same existential weight as historical religion.

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The deepest living structure in buildings is not attainable without some new understanding, without a new faith based on a new physical and intellectual grasp of the nature of the material universe.
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A strong conditional: the creation of the highest living structure requires a cosmology that reunites self and matter in terms consistent with modern science.

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What can we do, if this quality is necessary for living structure, and how might we attain it in our era? Is there a new way in which we can reach the real article?
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The pragmatic, forward‑looking question about how to translate the insight into a viable contemporary practice.

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Living structure and the process of creating it has a positive effect on the process of creation, similar to the Mozart effect.claim0.849
The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.831
There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.claim0.829
Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.
The existence of living structure, as defined in The Nature of Order, requires modifications in our physical picture of the world, not only in the picture we have of architecture.claim0.828
The closing claim of the chapter's mid-book appendix, asserting that the theory of centers has implications for physics.
There is a direct connection between the living structure of the world and the achieved person-ness we experience in ourselves.claim0.823
Living structure is at once structural and personal, uniting objective and subjective and potentially bridging the bifurcation of nature described by Whitehead.claim0.821
From the concluding Part Two interlude, asserting a synthesis of science and feeling.
Living structure might even be defined as 'that which pleases us'—that which truly pleases us.claim0.821
A proposed operational definition of living structure in terms of genuine pleasure.
A structure is truly generated, and perceived as having life, only when it has unfolded from a nice, beautiful sequence of differentiations.claim0.819
The most profound claim of the chapter: the niceness of the sequence is directly perceptible in the built form and is the ultimate source of living quality.