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Alexander's discovery of the mirror-of-the-self test, late 1970s

Historical moment when Alexander first identified the mirror-of-self test as an empirical tool for investigating quality and life in artifacts

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  • mirror of the self test
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    A method introduced in Book 1 where observers compare their feeling of self with the life in a candidate thing; Alexander claims it correlates with observed life in thousands of centers.