What is it about this technical matter, that must be done so as to support our belonging, our humanness, our capacity for love?

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• what aspect of 'humanity' is critical to maintain as humans modify their form and create others?question0.785
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• What degree of concern and care should we exhibit toward the many diverse agents around us, and what criteria do we use to identify sentience, capacity for suffering, and other properties that have moral implications?question0.784
  Central question motivating the paper.
• "It is this substance which permits — OR DOES NOT PERMIT — the emergence of living centers in the material, and the adaptation of fine structure that is needed to bring the larger whole to life."quote0.780
  Alexander's foundational assertion connecting material substance directly to living structure.
• What is needed to support individual acts of construction is a three-dimensional diagram of the actual shape of the needed space, more physical even than a model.claim0.776
  The core proposal for a new form of urban plan to guide piecemeal construction.
• Can We Extend Our Capacity For Love Andquestion0.770
• Technology should not be seen as a mere tool serving humans’ needs, but rather as a partner in a rich relationship with humans.claim0.761
  Central thesis of the paper, contrasting instrumental views of technology.
• The feeling of a material does not depend on what it is—it depends on how it is handled.claim0.761
  Assertion that even concrete can have the feeling of precious materials through process.
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.760
  Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception