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Perceived coherence of patterns is an objective measure, not idiosyncratic or subjective—people agree on relative coherence regardless of experimental task

Finding that relative coherence rankings remain constant across different people and across different cognitive processing tasks (description, memorization, tachistoscopic recognition), establishing coherence as an objective feature of cognitive processing

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Subsymmetries Experiment
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Experimental method using 35 black-and-white strips of 7 squares each (3 black, 4 white) with multiple cognitive tasks (description, memorization, tachistoscopic recognition, subjective simplicity rating) to measure perceived coherence and correlate it with number of local symmetries

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Life as a Quality of Space
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The idea that life is not merely an attribute of living organisms but an attribute of space itself; any spatial system can have more or less life depending on the life of its component centers and their density

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Quantifiable measure linking structural properties of configurations to human perception, supporting the mathematical reality of wholeness.
Coherenceconcept0.813
A property that makes a segment of space stand out as a center; determined by symmetry, connectedness, convexity, etc.
Number of local symmetries correlates almost perfectly with perceived cognitive coherence across 35 strip patternsfinding0.804
The key experimental finding: the number of subsymmetries (locally symmetrical connected segments) in a pattern predicts its perceived coherence; most coherent strips have 9 subsymmetries, least coherent have 5; the measure correlates almost perfectly with combined experimental rank order
Personal feeling is an objective quality inhering in things, not a subjective idiosyncratic responseclaim0.779
Central thesis: universality of personal feeling separates it from mere subjectivity
Coherence Criterion for Theory Evaluationconcept0.777
Alexander's argument that alongside empirical predictive force, the coherence of a theory's parts is a primary scientific criterion for truth.
c_symm measure predicts the experimentally determined rank order of coherence for 35 patterns with high accuracy.finding0.774
Quantitative result supporting the idea that local symmetry counting approximates perceived life in visual patterns.
long-range coherenceconcept0.769
Ability to maintain structural consistency over extended sequences
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Proposed future application of the Assistant Axis