Strong centers and equilibrium prices are equivalent mechanisms: stable attractors that organize systems without explicit direction.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Every strong center is made of many other strong centers—a multiplicity of centers at different levels which engages us; the concept is recursive, not referring to one grand centerclaim0.767
  Recursive definition of strong centers: they are composed of and supported by other strong centers at multiple scales
• In buildings, especially, the success of the process will be judged by the extent to which these middle-range entities appear with their own distinct symmetries, with their own definite and distinct force as strong centers.claim0.761
  Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process
• Strong centers occur throughout the physical world, from splashing drops to galaxies, with many processes radiating from central nodes.claim0.760
• Not-Separateness and Strong Centers can coexist in agent ecology, though this transfers from Alexander only by empirical test.claim0.759
• The structure which is created by a feeling for centers and by a conscious and deliberate aim towards the feeling of the whole, will often turn out to be an efficient structure.claim0.755
  Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.
• The results generalise readily to non-equilibrium systems where scaling relationships remain similar (e.g., dynamic or localised scaling).claim0.750
  Claim about broader applicability of the scaling argument
• A strong center in an interface is diagnostic of quality; sycophantic mirrors have no center, kitchen-sink outputs have too many.claim0.749
• Certain configurations of centers have such organizing force that they create entirely new levels of intensity within the centers themselves and utterly transmute the material character of space.hypothesis0.746
  Suggests that sufficiently intense fields of centers transcend ordinary matter.