In this universe, the human self, yours and mine, are indistinguishable, in their substance, from the space and matter where the play of forms occurs.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• We may then arrive at a picture of the world which includes the self, and which clearly recognizes the personal nature of the universe.claim0.799
  The outcome of using both methods together.
• What reason might there be that the centers which appear in natural things, created by apparently mechanical processes of nature unfolding, would also resemble your self, and my self?question0.794
  The deepest question driving Proposition 3: natural unfolding produces I-like centers, but why should a mathematical process care about self?
• If there were indeed a realm of I, an actual self in the material universe, then we could understand the nourishment as the creation of living centers increasing this I in those who have contact with it.hypothesis0.793
  Speculative explanatory framework linking the I to the healing effect.
• The universe is made of person-stuff, not machine-stuff; life is the person-stuffclaim0.789
  Alexander's most radical ontological claim about the nature of living structure
• Why should what appears as my self, and what appears as your self, be in any sense similar? And why should the things of the world, rank-ordered by degree of life, have approximately the same rank order for you and for me and for almost everyone else?question0.788
  The question motivating the universality claim in Proposition 2: how can a subjective measure of self produce cross-observer agreement?
• To create living structure we must find our own contemporary version of the I—a new vision of the universe in which meaning exists, relatedness and self have a primary place, and which is as real for us as God was in Mozart's heart.claim0.787
  The central challenge of the chapter: we need a new cosmology with the same existential weight as historical religion.
• There is a direct connection between the living structure of the world and the achieved person-ness we experience in ourselves.claim0.785
• There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.claim0.784
  Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.