beauty

A quality that is paramount and not a luxury; core to what sustainability really is.

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chapter

The Blazing One
mentions
Chapter 6 of Volume 4, The Luminous Ground, by Christopher Alexander. The chapter introduces the I-hypothesis, the plenum of I, and the Blazing One as the ultimate source of life in architecture.

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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.

True Beautyconcept0.828
The quality of being in touch with the I; beauty so deep that it makes God visible and which 20th-century design systematically avoided.
Beauty as Objectiveconcept0.821
The claim that beauty is not subjective but arises objectively from the degree of life and wholeness in things.
uglinessconcept0.749
The quality of built form that arises from structure-destroying transformations, lacking coherence and life.
Designerconcept0.749
A thing is beautiful to the extent that it reveals this one.claim0.746
Definition of beauty as revelation of the I.
Curiosityconcept0.739
Active sampling of novel contingencies to minimize uncertainty; formalized as novelty component of expected free energy
valueconcept0.735
Probability of sensory input expected by an agent, aligning value maximization with surprise minimization.
Entropyconcept0.735
A measurable physical quantity representing disorder; its increase is dictated by the second law of thermodynamics.