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concept:presencePresence
The 'something' that exists in living things, which is the I; an actual, personal quality in matter itself.
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Concepts (1)
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- the self (or 'I')same_concept_asAn eternal, impersonal yet intensely personal core within each person, also called the Void, the ground, or the great Self; the core of every living center.
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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.
- Objects that show human use and adaptation, such as the zone behind the bed, making a space more alive.
- Changing configuration to sample environment differently; minimizes free energy.
- Represented by boxes in process theory; transformations that take systems as inputs/outputs
- Central concept: the capacity to experience as a subject; core focus of the paper's argument about multiple substrates.
- The quality Alexander sought in heavy timber construction after recognizing that stud construction produces 'a bunch of sticks with planes strung between them' lacking deep feeling.
- The quality that enables reading; can be maintained even under extreme diagrammatic experimentation.
- A living center that is a picture of the self, connected to the I; a center that evokes relatedness and feels animated, self-like.