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The I must be real, and if the physical picture of space and time requires modification to include the I, this modification would be a discovery of the first order.

Alexander's scientific conjecture that his architectural theory implies a true modification of physics, analogous to Maxwell's discovery.

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The existence of living structure, as defined in The Nature of Order, requires modifications in our physical picture of the world, not only in the picture we have of architecture.
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The closing claim of the chapter's mid-book appendix, asserting that the theory of centers has implications for physics.
As an architect, Alexander has become convinced that the I is certainly real in buildings and must necessarily play a fundamental role in architecture.
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Alexander's personal scientific and professional conclusion stated in the Mid-Book Appendix.

Related by similarity (8)

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

The I exists physically, there is some plenum, not part of the physical space and matter as modeled in Cartesian science, but nevertheless there in fact.claim0.792
Core assertion of the plenum model: the I is real, not a metaphor.
Once a room is in position with size and location fixed, it is too late to give it real feeling or true meaning.claim0.787
Emphasizes the primacy of position.
To create living structure we must find our own contemporary version of the I—a new vision of the universe in which meaning exists, relatedness and self have a primary place, and which is as real for us as God was in Mozart's heart.claim0.787
The central challenge of the chapter: we need a new cosmology with the same existential weight as historical religion.
We may then arrive at a picture of the world which includes the self, and which clearly recognizes the personal nature of the universe.claim0.781
The outcome of using both methods together.
"[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.779
Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
The I or ground is a real thing, something which exists in the world, perhaps attached to matter, and forms a necessary substratum to all that exists.claim0.776
This quality is real, not merely an artifact of cognition but an objectively real physical phenomenon in space which our cognition detects.claim0.774
Moves from subjective perception to ontological claim about the nature of space.
A great work of art makes a permanent connection with the I.claim0.773
The highest works of art open a enduring window to the ground.