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finding:chartres-cathedral-contains-perhaps-a-hundred-million-living-centers-beingsChartres Cathedral contains perhaps a hundred million living centers/beings.
Estimate from examining 200 slides, describing the density of beings in the building.
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
Claims (1)
claim
- Interpretation of Chartres Cathedral as a deliberate, being-filled construction.
Datasets (1)
dataset
- 200 slides of ChartressupportsA personal corpus of 200 slides of Chartres Cathedral used by Alexander to demonstrate the multitude of living centers.
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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.
- Statement of ideal for every room.
- The structural correspondence between the objective field of centers and the subjective human self.
- Central proposition from Book 1 that grounds the beings model.
- Alexander's critical assessment of the limits of current complexity science relative to his explanatory target
- Establishes the necessity of the network of sequences.
- An ontological claim that places the self as the essential nucleus of all living structure.
- Ontological claim that centers, not particles or parts, are the building blocks of all phenomena.