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Sommer and Craik 1967: stories written in windowless rooms scored objectively more depressed by independent raters than those written in rooms with windows

Empirical precursor cited as first hint of a method where observer wholeness is the crucial instrument

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Observation of a person's inner state of wholeness can give reliable and objective information about the objective living character of systems in the external world
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Central claim of the chapter: what appears subjective (inner feeling) is actually an objective measuring instrument for external reality

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Scaling effect observed consistently across Experiments 1 and 4
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Summary of the root cause of lifelessness in modern architecture.