“What is called good is perfect and what is called bad is just as perfect.”
Walt Whitman

Christopher Alexander – Human Feelings

“Of course there is that part of human feeling where we are all different. Each of us has our idiosyncrasies, our unique individual human character. That is the part people most often concentrate on when they are talking about feelings, and comparing feelings. But that idiosyncratic part is really only about ten percent of the feelings which we feel. Ninety percent of our feelings is stuff in which we are all the same and we feel the same things. So, from the very beginning, when we made the pattern language, we concentrated on that … part of human experience …”

Christopher Alexander – The Nature of Order – Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life

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  1. Bin Jiang
    Posted August 30, 2021 at 12:43 pm | Permalink

    Yes, a vast majority of our feeling is shared regardless our cultures, gender, and races. The shared feeling is triggered by the underlying living structure in which there are far more small substructures than large ones; see illustrations shown in figures 2, 4 and 7 of this open-access paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0198971521000533

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