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method:expanding-and-contracting-of-humanity-testExpanding and Contracting of Humanity Test
A specific measurement technique tracking moment-to-moment expansion or contraction of one's sense of humanity as an index of life in encountered objects
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
Frameworks (1)
framework
- 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 (1)
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- Wholeness Comparison TestextendsThe more general, daily-use version of the mirror-of-self test: asking which of A or B induces greater feeling of wholeness in the observer
Chapters (1)
chapter
- Core methodological chapter arguing for a second, post-Cartesian form of scientific observation using the observer's inner wholeness as an objective measuring instrument
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Proposed mechanisms for verifying the provenance of creative content — critiqued as raising the wrong question (what made it vs. does it elevate us)
- Proposed test for AI consciousness by Schneider and Turner; uses verbal outputs.
- Non-profit with which Alexander worked, standing against their construction managers' push to standardize self-built houses.
- Tests like Turing test, Artificial Consciousness Test; argued to be unreliable for AI due to mimicry.
- 1960–1980 psychological movement cited for the wisdom that health depends on accurate awareness of one's own inner feeling
- Central argument that frameworks must go beyond natural species.