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There must be some relation between the ultimate nature of a living center and the nature of the I.

The hypothesis that the deepest aspect of centers is identical with the I-like presence.

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Claims (1)

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There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.
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Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.

Questions (1)

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If there is such a thing, such a feeling of relatedness between you and the dewdrops, what might it be caused by?
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The causal question that motivates the hypothesis of the I.

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.

Each living center has life to the extent it is linked to other centers; likewise, sequences generating living centers are interdependent.claim0.831
Establishes the necessity of the network of sequences.
The ultimate criterion for whether something works in nature and in buildings depends on the extent to which it resembles the healthy human selfclaim0.819
Summarizes the post-Cartesian revolution in a single succinct criterion
The intricate and beautiful structure of living centers comes about naturally, and most of the time without effort, as a result of the repeated application of structure-preserving transformations to the wholeness which exists.claim0.819
Central interpretive claim of the chapter, asserting that living structure is an effortless natural outcome of structure-preserving transformations.
Now, each living center has life to the extent that it is linked to other living centers (see Book 1 / INTRODUCTION chapter 4).quote0.817
Direct statement linking center-interdependence to the concept of life, foundational for the network argument.
My claim in Book 2 is that the intricate and beautiful structure of living centers comes about naturally, and most of the time without effort, as a result of the repeated application of structure-preserving transformations to the wholeness which exists.quote0.816
Central thesis statement of the chapter, encapsulating the core idea that living structure arises effortlessly from structure-preserving transformations.
Each building element in a living structure must itself be a powerful center - a living structure in itself.claim0.811
Elements must have life individually to contribute to the whole.
The creation of living centers in the world increases the I in those who have contact with it.claim0.811
Every living center may be distinguished as living, to the degree that it is a picture of the eternal self.claim0.810
Central proposition from Book 1 that grounds the beings model.