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concept:person-stuffPerson-stuff
Alexander's term for the personal substrate underlying matter; living structure awakens person-stuff in matter
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Thinkers (1)
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- Christopher Alexanderintroduces
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- Vulnerable Inner Selfassociated_withAlexander's term for the aspect of the self that becomes mobilized and connected to the world through personal feeling and living structure
- Life in Thingsassociated_withThe quality Alexander attributes to structures with deep wholeness and field of centers; connected to personal feeling
- Architecture as Mother-Artassociated_withAlexander's characterization of architecture as the fundamental art form that must embody person-stuff
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- Chapter 7: The Personal Nature Of OrderintroducesWorking unit of analysis — explores how living structure is inherently personal and connected to human feeling
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- Load-bearing ontological statement condensing Alexander's thesis about the personal nature of life
- Objects that show human use and adaptation, such as the zone behind the bed, making a space more alive.
- The spiritual self or ground of all existence that can be felt in living things.
- Alexander's most radical ontological claim about the nature of living structure
- The latent, free version of a person that occasionally emerges, especially when making beauty.
- The personal experience of being a self, which is left out of the mechanistic world-picture but is central to the new wholeness-based view.
- The deep inner aspect of people that morphogenesis touches, used by Alexander as an empirical concept.
- Alexander's central concept: 'personal' is not idiosyncratic but a universal, objective quality inhering in things with deep life