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The perceptual capacity to grasp the structure of wholeness directly, without interposing categories; very difficult to learn but essential for structure‑preserving making.
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- structure-preserving process (unfolding)associated_withThe step-by-step method of making in which each act is consistent with and extends the existing wholeness; the core mechanism that generates living structure, described in Book 2.
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- This chapter of 'The Luminous Ground' examines historical art to find clues for a cosmology that fuses self and matter, emphasizing that profound living structure consistently arises in a mystical-religious context and that we need a new vision of relatedness for our time.
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- The act of seeing and feeling the entire field of centers at a place, which Alexander equates with love of life.
- Alexander's core concept rejecting the idea that a whole consists of parts; instead, a whole makes its parts (called 'centers').
- Central question of the chapter, answered by defining wholeness as the structure of nested centers.
- Central claim of the chapter: what appears subjective (inner feeling) is actually an objective measuring instrument for external reality
- Asserts the ontological reality of wholeness as a physical/mathematical structure.
- Assertion that wholeness is a tangible spatial structure.
- The experiential correlate of deep wholeness; the personal, emotional recognition of life in a structure.
- The more general, daily-use version of the mirror-of-self test: asking which of A or B induces greater feeling of wholeness in the observer