method
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method:with-without-comparison-test-for-helping-relationWith/without comparison test for helping relation
A practical test to determine if center B helps center A by comparing the life of A with and without B.
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
Questions (1)
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- The practical question of identifying helping relations, answered by the with/without test.
Chapters (1)
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- How Life Comes From WholenessintroducesChapter 4 of Volume 1, The Phenomenon of Life, which explains how life arises from the wholeness of centers through mutual helping and recursion.
Related by similarity (8)
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.
- The relation between two centers where the presence of one intensifies the life of the other.
- Ternary relation xy|z defined on leaves of a tree as z ≰ x ∨ y; encodes the structure of evolutionary trees.
- The 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
- Novel task asking which of two sentences received a stronger injection, using matched-pairs design to control for positional bias
- The iterative method Alexander uses to make design decisions: compare two versions and ask which is more a picture of one's own eternal self, repeating until convergence.
- Parnas's relation defining program dependences and minimal subsets.
- Experimental protocol asking observers to compare two systems A and B for degree of life; used to establish objectivity through inter-observer convergence
- Experimental method where subjects choose which of two items has more life, yielding agreement and a relative measure of life.