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Alfred North Whitehead's term for the split between objective and subjective; Alexander claims living structure bridges this gap.
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- Alfred North Whiteheadintroducesstudies
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- From the concluding Part Two interlude, asserting a synthesis of science and feeling.
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- This chapter argues that the fifteen properties appear ubiquitously in natural systems, supporting the thesis that living structure is a fundamental property of nature, not just artifacts.
- The opening chapter of The Nature of Order, Vol. 4, diagnosing the inadequacy of mechanistic cosmology and setting the stage for a new worldview that reconciles self and matter.
- This chapter introduces the mirror-of-the-self test as an empirical method to measure living structure and explores its connection to human self and real liking.
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- Whitehead's lament on the bleakness of the mechanistic view of nature, capturing the spiritual cost.
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- A mathematical theory that might identify natural breakpoints in system development, relevant to levels of scale.
- Phase transition in cognitive space when prior intention forms; reorganizes constraint landscape analogously to plate tectonics.
- The quality a structure has when it is deeply connected to the I; what Alexander strives to produce in each element of a building.
- The idea that different parts of nature have inherent degrees of value corresponding to their degree of life.
- Four-volume work by Christopher Alexander providing foundational results for harmony-seeking computation, including the concept of wholeness and the fifteen properties.
- A new ecology where human-made and natural elements interpenetrate and are managed together as one balanced system.