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concept:best-self-deep-selfBest Self / Deep Self
The reservoir of goodness within each person that serves as the internal reference for harmony, rightness, and the recognition of living structure.
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- Living structure may be identified empirically by the extent to which it is a picture of one's self.associated_withAlexander claims there is an empirical method for identifying living structure via reference to the universal entity within each person.
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- Pleasing Yourselfassociated_withThe core prescription of the chapter: making what truly pleases you at the deepest level, which Alexander argues is the key to creating all living structure and the path to the I.
- The I (Great Self)associated_withThe transcendent ground of all existence, the eternal self within each person, to which we appeal when judging living structure and which is revealed when we truly please ourselves.
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- The personal experience of being a self, which is left out of the mechanistic world-picture but is central to the new wholeness-based view.
- The interior awareness, consciousness, and felt identity that each person experiences; absent from mechanistic cosmology.
- Synonym for real liking or liking from the heart; the authentic, convergent preference that tracks living structure.
- Developed AlphaGo and AlphaCode.
- Process of reifying one's identity as an independent self; meditation practices aim to decrease selfing.
- Model of agency in which self is constituted by dynamical patterns of care and goal-pursuit rather than permanent substance or essence.
- The single blinding unity, the ground of being, which living centers connect us to.
- Alexander's alternative conception where sustainability springs from wholeness, beauty, and morphogenesis.