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How is a modern person to interpret the idea that space becomes filled with I-like stuff and thousands of pictures of the self?

The central challenge of the chapter to the reader's worldview.

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Recursion not only strengthens centers but causes the appearance of pictures of the self throughout every nook and cranny of a region of space.
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A key mechanism claim linking the structural recursion to the saturation of space with I-like beingness.

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When you make a beautiful thing, the depth of the person within becomes more vivid, lives more intensely for a moment.claim0.782
We may then arrive at a picture of the world which includes the self, and which clearly recognizes the personal nature of the universe.claim0.777
The outcome of using both methods together.
When people think about what is needed to give them surroundings in which life can be lived, they CAN articulate itclaim0.775
Optimistic statement about the latent capacity of ordinary people to express their deepest needs
If self or I is woken up whenever living structure appears in matter, what we think of as value may then be described as the protection, preservation, nourishment, of the precious self of the universe.claim0.774
New assumption #8: value as protection of the universal self.
Often the conceptual picture a person has of a place is an invented convention at odds with the wholeness that exists, and it is even difficult for modern people to see the wholeness.claim0.771
Epistemological/phenomenological claim about perception.
For the first time in modern history, ways of thinking are available that make the criteria for 'living' potentially sharable and actually shared.claim0.769
Asserts that the theoretical foundation laid out in the four books provides a public quality standard for sequences.
Space becomes more deeply functional and well-organized as it begins to resemble more deeply the human person; life in a center means the space begins to resemble the human selfclaim0.768
Extraordinary structural claim: functional organization converges on resemblance to the human self
There is a direct connection between the living structure of the world and the achieved person-ness we experience in ourselves.claim0.764