What does the mirror-of-the-self experiment mean?

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• Mirror-of-the-self experimentmethod0.921
  Experimental protocol developed by Alexander in the 1970s: subjects compare two configurations and choose which is more like their eternal self, yielding consistent cross-cultural agreement.
• Mirror of the selfconcept0.851
  The phenomenon that objects with more living structure appear to us as more resembling our own eternal self.
• mirror of the self testmethod0.839
  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.
• Performing the mirror-of-the-self test gradually brings the observer closer to contact with the original mind.claim0.816
  The reciprocal effect: doing the test deepens self-knowledge and judgment.
• The mirror-of-the-self test helps observers escape subjective preference and learn to see the objective life in things.claim0.801
  Describes the transformative potential of the test.
• The mirror-of-the-self test produces judgments of relative life that are consistent across people and correspond to objective living structure.claim0.793
  Central methodological claim of the chapter, supported by multiple experiments.
• Mirror experiment cross-cultural agreement: people consistently choose the same objects as resembling their eternal self.finding0.786
  In the mirror-of-the-self experiments, people from the same culture and even different cultures agree to a significant extent on which objects embody their eternal self.
• Self-reflectionconcept0.783
  The ability of reasoning LLMs to review and revise previous reasoning steps during inference