Feeling of life (intuitive perception)

The subjective, often shared, impression that some things have more life than others—experienced with waves, lakes, gold, people, buildings.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

concept

Degree of life
associated_with
The measure of how much living structure a thing possesses, ranging from high (tea bowl) to low (computer casing).

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

feeling as mode of perception of the wholeconcept0.794
Grasping wholeness not analytically but through a visceral feeling that arises when paying attention to the whole.
The feeling a place presents to us is a measure of its life.claim0.792
Epistemological claim that phenomenological response is the primary yardstick for evaluating living structure.
Feeling (as distinct from emotion)concept0.792
Alexander distinguishes 'feeling' — the sense of being part of the ocean, sky, world — from emotions like happiness, sadness, or anger
Feeling (of wholeness)concept0.787
The experiential correlate of deep wholeness; the personal, emotional recognition of life in a structure.
The measuring technique of observer inner feeling provides the mainstay of the claim that degree of life is an empirically observable quality in the worldclaim0.787
Concluding methodological claim of §9 linking the measurement technique to the empirical status of life as a world-property
Feeling is a way of grasping the wholeness of a situation.claim0.781
The feeling or vision of emotional substance comes into our minds from the whole which exists.claim0.780
Feelingconcept0.780
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.