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concept:personal-quality-of-spacePersonal quality of space
The property that space-matter can have a self-like, personal feeling, contrary to the mechanistic view of inert matter.
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Claims (1)
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- New cosmological assumption #7: the deepest claim about the nature of matter.
Concepts (2)
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- Life as a Quality of Spacerelated_toThe 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
- Quality spacerelated_toThe similarity space of phenomenal qualities, underpinned by sparse and smooth coding.
Chapters (1)
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- Chapter 11: The Face Of GodintroducesThis chapter argues that the quality without a name is literally God appearing, and that a necessary state of mind for making living things is to offer them as a gift to God.
Related by similarity (8)
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.
- Alexander's central concept: 'personal' is not idiosyncratic but a universal, objective quality inhering in things with deep life
- Individually owned gardens and building lots that provide personal belonging.
- The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.
- Opening claim that establishes the chapter's thesis.
- Core claim that life is a universal, non-biological attribute of all matter.
- A space of physiological parameters that systems navigate for adaptive responses.
- Objects that show human use and adaptation, such as the zone behind the bed, making a space more alive.
- The realm of streets, squares, and paths that belong to the community, forming the yellow in the four-fold pattern.