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concept:feeling-of-wholenessFeeling (of wholeness)
The experiential correlate of deep wholeness; the personal, emotional recognition of life in a structure.
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Concepts (5)
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- Wholenessrelated_tosubtype_ofAlexander's core concept rejecting the idea that a whole consists of parts; instead, a whole makes its parts (called 'centers').
- Feelingrelated_toThe 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.
- Grasping wholeness not analytically but through a visceral feeling that arises when paying attention to the whole.
- Wholesome Feelingrelated_toA state of feeling whole, healed, and integrated that arises when we are near things with deep life or when we create them.
- living structureassociated_withA built or natural form that possesses life, arising from morphogenetic adaptation, as opposed to blueprint designs.
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- Concluding chapter of Volume 3, summarizing the vision of a living world created through unfolding wholeness.
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- Alexander distinguishes 'feeling' — the sense of being part of the ocean, sky, world — from emotions like happiness, sadness, or anger
- A singular, non-emotional feeling that arises from experiencing the wholeness; distinct from emotions. It is the experiential grasp of the whole.
- Concise formulation of the chapter's central identity claim between objective structure and subjective experience
- The central identity claim of the chapter linking objective structure to subjective experience
- Description of how feeling guides design steps from the existing wholeness of the site.