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Wholeness as a Conceptual Foundation of Physical Theories.

Physics Essays, 2004
A description of physical reality in which wholeness is the foundation is discussed along with the motivation for such an attempt. As a possible mathematical framework within which a physical theory based on wholeness may be expressed, elementary ...
Piechocinska, Barbara
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“Wholeness Is No Trifling Matter”: Toward an Epistemology of Care, Touch, and Celebration in Education

Education Sciences
The authors argue that embracing life necessitates a shift in how we conceptualize wellness in education. They delve into the exploration of humanizing wellness and living well by drawing on Black onto-epistemologies, specifically referencing Bambara’s ...
Wilson Okello, Shawn S. Savage
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The Expanding of Consciousness, Integral Consciousness, and Conscious Evolution in Paule Marshall’s Fiction

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2022
Paule Marshall’s literary concerns cover key issues of the Black Diaspora such as Black consciousness and the search for wholeness. These two issues connect with the research about the different manifestations of consciousness carried out by scientists ...
Silvia Castro Borrego
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Structural Beauty: A Structure-Based Computational Approach to Quantifying the Beauty of an Image

Journal of Imaging, 2021
To say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder means that beauty is largely subjective so varies from person to person. While the subjectivity view is commonly held, there is also an objectivity view that seeks to measure beauty or aesthetics in some ...
Bin Jiang, Chris de Rijke
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Wholeness and Nature: School Cinema and Reform Pedagogy

Research in Film and History, 2023
Federal Educational Institutes (Bundeserziehungsanstalt) represented the avant-garde of state school reform after WWI in Austria. How does the school cinema of the Bundeserziehungsanstalt Vienna-Breitensee inscribe itself in the reform-pedagogy complex ...
Christian Dewald
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Newman, Catholicity, and the Church Today: On the Development of Christian Principles through Dialogue with the World

Religions, 2021
This article explores the following question: Given the Roman Catholic Church’s present-day teaching on catholicity, how can St. John Henry Newman’s historically conscious, imaginative view of catholicity assist Catholic Christians today in understanding
Christopher Cimorelli
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The Soul of Goethe’s Thought

Studia Gilsoniana, 2020
Goethe’s philosophical writings all ultimately stem from his efforts to understand the creative act, which he experienced as essentially the same in all the various forms of activity he engaged in, the writing of his poems, novels and plays, his ...
Mark Herrbach
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Living Structure Down to Earth and Up to Heaven: Christopher Alexander

Urban Science, 2019
Discovered by Christopher Alexander, living structure is a physical phenomenon, through which the quality of the built environment or artifacts can be judged objectively. It has two distinguishing properties just like a tree: “Far more small things
Bin Jiang
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Alexander’s Theories Applied to Urban Design

Urban Science, 2018
Christopher Alexander has presented key concepts, such as wholeness, centres, and harmony-seeking computations, related to the coherence reached by a system.
Alice Rauber, Romulo Krafta
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A Quanti-Qualitative Approach to Alexander’s Harmony-Seeking Computations

Urban Planning, 2023
Harmony-seeking computations, as proposed by Christopher Alexander, offer a way to tackle complexity. Smart, free agents, facing uncertainty, look for order in a context powered by fifteen attractors, or patterns.
Alice Rauber, Romulo Krafta
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