Where Descartes only allowed observation to focus on the outer reality of mechanisms in the world, my method requires that we focus on the inner reality of feeling as well.

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• I revere Descartes... he not only invented the method of observation which in effect we have continued to use unchanged for several hundred years, but he also saw clearly what it would bring.quote0.846
  Alexander's generous framing of Descartes before presenting the second method as extension rather than rejection
• Descartes not only invented the method of mechanistic observation but foresaw in 1641 what the cumulative application of that method would accomplish over several hundred yearsclaim0.825
  Alexander's reverential framing of Descartes before proposing to extend his method
• What I am proposing is that these observations of an observer's inner state are not merely a reflection of a person's attitude or psychology, but can actually be used to measure something real about the external world itself.quote0.816
  Alexander's most radical epistemological claim stated with maximum directness
• My method requires that we focus on the inner reality of the observer's feeling of wholesomeness as well.claim0.813
  Description of the new method's core.
• Alexander's method of observation based on inner feelingmethod0.791
  An empirical method that invites the observer to make distinctions based on inner feelings of wholeness, with a framework that guarantees consistency and objectivity.
• Observations of an observer's inner state are not merely psychological but can actually be used to measure something real about the external world itself, and should be considered part of physicsclaim0.789
  Alexander's most radical epistemological claim: phenomenological measurement belongs in physics, not just psychology
• "[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."quote0.781
  Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
• "We could continue to invent new and exciting mechanisms beyond context-orientation and Worlds, ad absurdum, or recognise they are all just points within a dimensionally unbounded space of related, self-similar mechanisms."concept0.778
  Claim that many advanced programming paradigms reduce to parameterizations of the n-way associative model.