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The devotional atmosphere that provided the maker time and concentrated attention, enabling the step-by-step nature of unfolding.

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Chapter 2: Clues From The History Of Art
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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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Claim about the radical novelty of high-speed adaptive production.
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Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.
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Final claim: the brutal geometric process is what gives anything its essential force and value
Minds are not tightly bound to specific architectures but readily mold to changes in genomic defaults and material substrate.claim0.719
Central claim supporting TAME's framework: evidence of cognitive flexibility across diverse embodied systems.
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