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framework:cartesian-methodCartesian Method
The scientific method that requires observation by any observer and excludes subjective states, argued to be inadequate for measuring life.
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- A causal explanation for the failure of modern architecture.
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- The dominant scientific paradigm Alexander seeks to supplement: observation of limited machine-like events from an external, self-excluded standpoint
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- Chapter 8: The Mirror Of The SelfcontradictsThis chapter introduces the mirror-of-the-self test as an empirical method to measure living structure and explores its connection to human self and real liking.
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- The method of observing the world as if it were a machine, separating the observer from the observed, leading to mechanistic knowledge.
- The worldview Alexander is critiquing: objective structure of the world is separate from human feeling and happiness
- Alexander's proposed alternative: wholeness of the world and feeling of happiness together form a single unity
- The core framework introduced in this chapter: using the observer's experienced inner wholeness as an objective measuring instrument for the degree of life in external systems
- Methods for bottom-up model space construction; contrasted with top-down BMR approach of this paper
- Philosophical framework the authors argue underlies outdated distinctions between embodied life and pure AI, as well as life vs. machine
- The dominant model of space as neutral, mechanistic, and composed of independent parts; critiqued throughout.
- Alexander's critique of Cartesian epistemology as structurally incapable of perceiving living structure