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concept:the-i-ultimate-selfThe I / ultimate self
The single blinding unity, the ground of being, which living centers connect us to.
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- Definition of beauty as revelation of the I.
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- Animal I-identity probeintroducesA phenomenological experiment asking the reader to regard a beloved animal as part of the same I as oneself.
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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.
- Central metaphysical concept of the chapter: the universal ground of selfhood that living centers reflect and connect to; what makers must yearn toward to produce living structure.
- The transcendent ground of all existence, the eternal self within each person, to which we appeal when judging living structure and which is revealed when we truly please ourselves.
- An 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.
- The three qualities of the I: personal, one, suffused with relatedness.
- The interior awareness, consciousness, and felt identity that each person experiences; absent from mechanistic cosmology.
- The deep, enduring self that is related to living things; the part of a person that experiences relatedness, distinct from the everyday self.
- Minimal conclusion that at least one of the two versions of the I-hypothesis must be true.
- 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.