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concept:phenomenon-of-lifePhenomenon of Life
The observable emergence of life-quality from wholeness; both a functional and aesthetic quality in buildings and nature.
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- The idea that life in a building comes about as centers cooperatively intensify each other's life, a recursive bootstrapping process.
- Emmeche's position that living systems are fundamentally semiotic; supports biosemiotic approach to cognition.
- Definitional claim equating life with spatial uniqueness.
- The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.
- The state of having subjective experiences; there is something it is like to be the subject.
- The standard derived from Book I for judging whether a structure or process is living; now claimed to be publicly sharable.
- The experienced presence of aliveness, wholeness, and connectedness in built form, beyond biological life.
- The subjective, often shared, impression that some things have more life than others—experienced with waves, lakes, gold, people, buildings.