concept
active
concept:window-to-the-iWindow to the I
The capacity of living structure to open a connection from matter to the ultimate I, allowing spirit to shine through.
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
Claims (2)
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- The purpose of all living quality is to connect to the I.
- The living structure as a conduit to the ground.
Chapters (2)
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- The Blazing OneintroducesChapter 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.
- Chapter 11: The Face Of GodintroducesThis chapter argues that the quality without a name is literally God appearing, and that a necessary state of mind for making living things is to offer them as a gift to God.
Concepts (1)
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- Centersassociated_withPrimary entities of wholeness that arise from configurations and are activated in space; they have different levels of strength or coherence and are intensified by relationships with other centers.
Related by similarity (8)
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.
- The fundamental self, ground, or substratum underlying all existence; a real thing, a blinding unity, accessible through inner light.
- A window conceived not as a hole in the wall but as a definite three-dimensional space that brings light and becomes a center.
- A window that functions as a three-dimensional center, intensifying the life of the room and providing a comfortable spot by the light.
- Minimal conclusion that at least one of the two versions of the I-hypothesis must be true.
- Core abstraction in Oberon: rectangular areas of display partitioned into interactive viewing units with title bar and content area.
- Threshold-based policy pruning to reduce computational cost of planning.
- The moment of coining the central term.