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concept:the-perennial-philosophyThe Perennial Philosophy
The idea, popularized by Aldous Huxley, that all great religious traditions share a core mystical truth—here linked to the experience of life.
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- Aldous HuxleyauthoredAuthor of 'The Perennial Philosophy', cited as a source on mystical traditions and the quality of life.
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- Chapter 2: Clues From The History Of ArtcitesmentionsThis 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.
- The Blazing OnementionsChapter 6 of Volume 4, The Luminous Ground, by Christopher Alexander. The chapter introduces the I-hypothesis, the plenum of I, and the Blazing One as the ultimate source of life in architecture.
- Opening chapter of Vol 1, introducing a broad conception of life and arguing that all things possess life in some degree, using examples from nature, art, and everyday experience.
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- Western philosophical tradition proposed as solution to Persistence Paradox; conceived self as process not thing.
- Philosophical field dealing with nature of mind, self, and consciousness.
- Conceptual framework offering unique perspective on intelligence, consciousness, and non-self; central to paper's thesis
- Core logical puzzle: if an agent does not change, it dies; if it changes, the self ceases to exist. Applies to all scales from organelles to evolutionary lineages.
- The mathematical structure of nothingness, an endless system of repeating weak centers; approximate to the structure of emptiness.