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concept:objective-life-in-spaceobjective life in space
The claim that the degree of life is a real physical phenomenon inherent in space, not merely a subjective projection.
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- Degree of lifeextendsThe measure of how much living structure a thing possesses, ranging from high (tea bowl) to low (computer casing).
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- Degrees of LifementionsChapter 2, introducing the concept that all space has an objective, measurable degree of life.
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- 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
- The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.
- Central question about the nature of the awakening phenomenon.
- Alexander's Proposition 1: that life is not a mechanical property but a quality that space itself has, analogous to Maxwell's electromagnetic field.
- The final distillation of the chapter's argument, making life a fundamental property of matter/space.
- The notion that space itself can become alive as a center emerges; a premise of the theory that is puzzling from a physics standpoint.
- Load-bearing assertion of objectivity, summarizing the chapter's thesis.
- Life occurs in space not as an attribute of living organisms but as an attribute of space itselfclaim0.748Radical 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