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The radical identity of self and matter.
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- New cosmological assumption #7: the deepest claim about the nature of matter.
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- The outcome of using both methods together.
- The deepest question driving Proposition 3: natural unfolding produces I-like centers, but why should a mathematical process care about self?
- Speculative explanatory framework linking the I to the healing effect.
- Alexander's most radical ontological claim about the nature of living structure
- The question motivating the universality claim in Proposition 2: how can a subjective measure of self produce cross-observer agreement?
- The central challenge of the chapter: we need a new cosmology with the same existential weight as historical religion.
- Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.