Picture-of-the-Self Criterion

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• picture of the self testmethod0.833
  Judge a design by whether it feels like a picture of your own self, makes you feel your own humanity.
• What is the boundary of self?question0.768
• mirror of the self testmethod0.768
  A method introduced in Book 1 where observers compare their feeling of self with the life in a candidate thing; Alexander claims it correlates with observed life in thousands of centers.
• The mirror-of-self criterion allows a person with almost no training, after a few hours, to make quality judgments of carpets that would normally require years of connoisseurship.finding0.764
  Empirical finding cited in Book 1 regarding oriental carpets, recapitulated in the Mid-Book Appendix to support the universality of the self-criterion.
• We may then arrive at a picture of the world which includes the self, and which clearly recognizes the personal nature of the universe.claim0.759
  The outcome of using both methods together.
• Self-reflectionconcept0.756
  The ability of reasoning LLMs to review and revise previous reasoning steps during inference
• The Self (Human Self)concept0.755
  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 selfconcept0.751
  The interior awareness, consciousness, and felt identity that each person experiences; absent from mechanistic cosmology.