"Wholeness" and "life" are words Chris Alexander uses for The Timeless Quality. Body envelope violations an extreme example of its absence.
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
Whole things get blown up and fragmented. Our task is to constantly be repairing wholeness. And sometimes burying people.
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Museums are one kind of home for scattered fragments of past wholeness, but they rarely even try to create new wholeness.
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@sarahdoingthing whole cultures can become museums of themselves if they resist fragmentation too rigorously. Tibetans have done this.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@Meaningness change is what creates wholeness - the process of repair, not stasis1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing I like the word "repair" except it usually means "returning to previous state". "Bricolage" is good except implies newness.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing Daoism has some technical vocabulary that is probably relevant here, in particular te https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_%28Chinese%29#Taoist_usages …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing Lao Tzŭ said: "Tao produces a thing; Tê maintains it." – "Tao Tê Ching," 51.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing Chuang Tzŭ said: "That which things get in order to live is called Tê." – Chapter XII.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing The opposite of perturbation, relaxation toward an attractor, the integral of chi over time2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@St_Rev @sarahdoingthing I love the image of ∫χdt , but I’m not quite sure what it means. I suppose cuz I’m not sure what chi is.
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@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing I was free-associating. I'm not sure what it means either!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing Chi is a very complicated (and at least partly incoherent) concept! The original root meaning is 'breath'.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - 5 more replies
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