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method:picture-of-the-self-testpicture of the self test
Judge a design by whether it feels like a picture of your own self, makes you feel your own humanity.
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- The chapter presenting the argument that deep feeling is the core of living process, illustrated with examples from architecture, painting, and design.
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- The experimental criterion by which degree of life in a center is measured: which of two things more resembles the observer's own eternal self.
- The operational rule that the object which is a better picture of one's whole self is the one with more living structure.
- A method introduced in Book 1 where observers compare their feeling of self with the life in a candidate thing; Alexander claims it correlates with observed life in thousands of centers.
- The interior awareness, consciousness, and felt identity that each person experiences; absent from mechanistic cosmology.
- The behavioral paradigm (mark/sticker placed on face, checked in mirror) used to evaluate self-awareness in animals and infants
- Process of reifying one's identity as an independent self; meditation practices aim to decrease selfing.
- The epistemological core of Alexander's method: the human observer's inner state is a reliable, replicable measuring device for objective properties of the external world
- The model's verbal description of its internal state, which may be accurate or confabulated.