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quote:what-one-must-imagine-is-an-incredible-hive-of-activity-at-every-level-of-magnification-of-music-being-made-using-more-than-two-thirds-of-the-73-octaves-of-the-electromagnetic-spectrum-locally-appearing-as-though-chaotic-and-yet-perfectly-coordinated-as-a-wholeWhat one must imagine is an incredible hive of activity, at every level of magnification—of music being made using more than two thirds of the 73 octaves of the electromagnetic spectrum—locally appearing as though chaotic, and yet perfectly coordinated as a whole.
Mae-Wan Ho's beautiful description of the living organism, which Alexander cites as poetic yet still mechanistic.
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- The confluence of quantum physics, systems theory, chaos theory, complexity theory, and biology attempting a more holistic picture of the universe as an unbroken whole.
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- An example of an experience that the mechanistic cosmology cannot accommodate, indicating its inadequacy.
- Alexander's scientific conjecture that his architectural theory implies a true modification of physics, analogous to Maxwell's discovery.
- Moves from subjective perception to ontological claim about the nature of space.
- A combinatorial argument that good sequences are astronomically rare, emphasizing the difficulty of discovery.
- Alexander, Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964); establishes design's relationship to intelligence amplification and early AI discourse.
- Cube Flipper's physicalist phenomenology, supported by visual cortex receptive field properties.
- Definition of real simplicity tied to resolving the wholeness.