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concept:life-as-inherent-attribute-of-spaceLife as Inherent Attribute of Space
Alexander's Proposition 1: that life is not a mechanical property but a quality that space itself has, analogous to Maxwell's electromagnetic field.
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- James Clerk Maxwellanalogous_toCited as analogy: Maxwell's idea that light is electromagnetic waves in space itself parallels Alexander's claim that life is an attribute of space itself.
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- living structureassociated_withA built or natural form that possesses life, arising from morphogenetic adaptation, as opposed to blueprint designs.
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- The final distillation of the chapter's argument, making life a fundamental property of matter/space.
- Alexander's conditional prediction: if the recursive calculus works, then life-as-attribute-of-space must be a real feature of the universe.
- The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.
- Life occurs in space not as an attribute of living organisms but as an attribute of space itselfclaim0.846Radical ontological claim that life is a property of spatial configuration itself, not limited to biological organisms; the degree of life depends on the coherence of centers
- Definitional claim equating life with spatial uniqueness.
- The idea that life is not merely an attribute of living organisms but an attribute of space itself; any spatial system can have more or less life depending on the life of its component centers and their density
- Proposition 1 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the most fundamental metaphysical claim of the theory.
- The central predictive/causal hypothesis of the book, to be tested in later chapters.