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concept:feelingFeeling
The experiential measure of life; a living process is congruent with and governed by feeling, and the feeling a place presents is the measure of its life.
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
Claims (1)
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- Essential feature of living process, making phenomenological experience the central criterion for evaluation.
Concepts (4)
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- Feeling (of wholeness)related_toThe experiential correlate of deep wholeness; the personal, emotional recognition of life in a structure.
- Feeling (as distinct from emotion)related_toAlexander distinguishes 'feeling' — the sense of being part of the ocean, sky, world — from emotions like happiness, sadness, or anger
- Grasping wholeness not analytically but through a visceral feeling that arises when paying attention to the whole.
- Feelingsrelated_toSalient vectors in the space of emotions and intuitions; percepts of emotion, physiological valence, and extra-intellectual evaluation of reality
Questions (1)
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- What feature will create a deeper feeling in that place?associated_withRepeated question during the Claremont Canyon design dialog; the guide for selecting next steps.
Chapters (1)
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- Chapter 9: **The WholeintroducesThis chapter argues that every step in a living process must enhance the whole, using examples from drawing, zoning, St. Mark's Square, canyon design, and painting.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- The deadening effect of modern processes that prevent people from acting according to their feeling for the whole, damaging the global whole.
- The emotional substance originating from one's own humanity that must be put into making for life to appear.
- Equated with inference of past, present and future hidden states via minimization of variational free energy.
- The subjective perceptual experience of the degree of life when comparing two things.
- The method of examining a neighborhood meter by meter to identify healthy and damaged places as the basis for ongoing repair.
- The mechanism by which each step's effect is evaluated against the life of the whole, guiding the unfolding.