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The design criterion that among possible new local symmetries, one introduces the symmetry that most intensifies the feeling of the whole.
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- Local Symmetriesassociated_withThe property that living wholes contain many interlocking and overlapping local symmetries rather than overall symmetry; local symmetries act as glue holding space together, and their number predicts cognitive coherence
- Symmetry Production (design approach)associated_withThe approach of creating form by introducing one profound local symmetry at a time, chosen to maximize feeling.
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- Practical design question driving the feeling-symmetry principle.
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- Grasping wholeness not analytically but through a visceral feeling that arises when paying attention to the whole.
- Physical principle used to model tracer effect and traveling wave construction of space in consciousness.
- Theory that valence (pleasure/pain) is related to symmetry in neural processing.
- 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.
- The idea that gravitational constant is a function of all matter in the universe; cited as an example of wholeness in cosmology.
- Alexander distinguishes 'feeling' — the sense of being part of the ocean, sky, world — from emotions like happiness, sadness, or anger
- At each step, choose the action that most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole.