Eyes-Closed Visualization on Site

Method used with Andre and Anna: standing on site with eyes closed, abandoning preconceptions, visualizing the most comfortable remembered place

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Empathic Immersion for Pattern Discovery
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The procedure of living with families in a target culture, using one's own feelings as measuring instrument, and cross-checking across multiple observers to identify essential centers

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

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

Mind's eye visualizationmethod0.815
Technique of building a fluid, three-dimensional vision by closing one's eyes, relying on words and feeling to avoid arbitrary graphical over-specification.
closing eyes to grasp emotional substancemethod0.772
Sitting with eyes closed intensively to let the authentic vision of the formless feeling enter the mind; used repeatedly in the Great Hall example.
Feature Visualizationmethod0.761
Method of optimizing input to cause a neuron to fire maximally, used to characterize what a neuron detects; establishes causal link
Wide-open eyes statemethod0.753
A diagnostic technique (described in Book 1, appendix 3) where one opens the eyes very wide to detect gray spots of disunity in a work.
Closingmethod0.750
Dynamic condition: ending a branch or closing a frame.
The word picture captures just what you have seen so far in your inner eye, adding little that is not generated by the living process.claim0.734
Explains why verbal description matches the mind's eye medium.
visual reasoningconcept0.732
Visual reasoning tasks often interleaved with intermediate visual states; promising direction in the field.
"Close your eyes and tell me what you see. Imagine that it is wonderful in your own terms. You didn't know that it was there... What is it that you found?"quote0.731
The prompt Alexander uses in visionary interviews to draw out authentic, universal visions from individuals