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concept:healing-effect-of-living-structureHealing Effect of Living Structure
The idea that contact with living structure makes us more whole, human, and alive; a claim linking environment to well-being.
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- living structuresubtype_ofA built or natural form that possesses life, arising from morphogenetic adaptation, as opposed to blueprint designs.
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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.
- Opening question of the chapter.
- Living structure might even be defined as 'that which pleases us'—that which truly pleases us.claim0.792A proposed operational definition of living structure in terms of genuine pleasure.
- A metaphysical assertion that the ground of all things is a necessary, permanent condition for creating living structure.
- The nourishment and increased wholeness experienced by a maker when creating living structure.
- A strong normative claim from Book 2 recapitulated in the appendix as a verifiable and surprising conclusion.
- Defines living structure as the product of a truthful unfolding process that respects and preserves existing wholeness.