Life (Alexander's broad definition)

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• Life (Alexander's sense)concept0.847
  A broad notion of life that includes non-biological systems like waves and fire, central to Alexander's later philosophy.
• Biological life (narrow mechanistic definition)concept0.804
  The conventional 20th-century definition: a carbon-oxygen-hydrogen-nitrogen system capable of self-reproduction, healing, and stability over a lifetime.
• What is an appropriate definition of 'life'?question0.791
  Background definitional challenge noted as notoriously difficult, motivating the paper's approach of updating 'machine' rather than defining 'life'
• What we call 'life' is a general condition which exists, to some degree or other, in every part of space... every connected region of space... has some degree of life, and that this degree of life is well defined, objectively existing, and measurable.hypothesis0.771
  The central predictive/causal hypothesis of the book, to be tested in later chapters.
• life (beyond-biological quality)concept0.769
  The general, non-biological quality that Alexander claims exists in all material systems to varying degrees.
• life (as quality in architecture)concept0.766
  The felt quality of wholeness and aliveness in a building or a work, the aim of the fundamental process.
• What we call 'life' is a general condition which exists, to some degree or other, in every part of space: brick, stone, grass, river, painting, building, daffodil, human being, forest, city.quote0.764
  Verbatim statement of the fundamental hypothesis, defining the scope of life.
• The degree of life is well defined, objectively existing, and measurable.claim0.762
  Part of the fundamental hypothesis, asserting empirical accessibility.