Are observations of inner wholeness merely psychological reflections of attitude, or can they actually measure something real about the external world itself?

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• What I am proposing is that these observations of an observer's inner state are not merely a reflection of a person's attitude or psychology, but can actually be used to measure something real about the external world itself.quote0.896
  Alexander's most radical epistemological claim stated with maximum directness
• Observation of a person's inner state of wholeness can give reliable and objective information about the objective living character of systems in the external worldclaim0.852
  Central claim of the chapter: what appears subjective (inner feeling) is actually an objective measuring instrument for external reality
• Wholeness and feeling are two sides of a single reality; the external phenomenon of wholeness and the internal experience of personal feeling are, at some level, one and the same thingclaim0.789
  The central identity claim of the chapter linking objective structure to subjective experience
• My method requires that we focus on the inner reality of the observer's feeling of wholesomeness as well.claim0.783
  Description of the new method's core.
• Different human observers report very similar results when using the wholeness-feeling test, and their observations convergeclaim0.782
  Empirical basis for the objectivity of the second method: inter-observer agreement validates that the wholeness measure tracks something real
• The test of wholeness experienced by an observer encompasses ecological appropriateness, social value, beauty, and comfort — all wrapped together in the global judgment of wholenessclaim0.776
  Alexander argues the wholeness criterion is not naive but integrates all dimensions of architectural quality
• seeing wholeness accuratelyconcept0.776
  The perceptual capacity to grasp the structure of wholeness directly, without interposing categories; very difficult to learn but essential for structure‑preserving making.
• The real centers we see when we look at a situation in its wholeness control the real behavior of the thing, the life which develops there, and the feelings people have.claim0.773
  Asserts that functional outcomes are determined by the wholeness structure, not by abstract categories.