Sensitivity as a property common to all matter or as a result of the organization of matter (Diderot's hypothesis).

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• You will come to feel that by refusing to entertain a simple hypothesis that explains everything - sensitivity as a property common to all matter or as a result of the organization of matter - you are flying in the face of common sense and plunging into a chasm of mysteries, contradictions and absurdities.quote0.833
  Diderot's argument for the simplicity and rationality of a living-matter hypothesis over the mechanistic dead-matter view.
• "It is this substance which permits — OR DOES NOT PERMIT — the emergence of living centers in the material, and the adaptation of fine structure that is needed to bring the larger whole to life."quote0.767
  Alexander's foundational assertion connecting material substance directly to living structure.
• context-sensitivityconcept0.760
  Deep responsiveness to local conditions, essential for a process to be living.
• The intricate and context-specific adaptation that shapes every detail differently is a necessary structural feature of all life.claim0.758
  Foundational claim about the necessity of adaptation for life in structures.
• The adherence to the whole is what we experience as feeling.claim0.758
• The fifteen properties emerge directly and inevitably from the unfolding of the whole; it is these fifteen properties that guide all differentiations during development.claim0.758
  Alexander's claim that living structure properties are not incidental but are the operative mechanisms of wholeness-preserving transformation
• Consciousness is a phenomenon we have partial sensors for; building better sensors is a research and engineering question.claim0.757
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.757
  Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem