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claim:65e5d3b4aee536e4Degree of life varies with relative configuration of surrounding centers, not absolute properties.
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- Cross-scale frameworks linking spatial patterns, diagrams, and simplicity as expressions of care in design.
- Cross-domain synthesis mapping Alexander's living centers to Levin's bioelectric morphogenesis as one recursive mechanism.
- Frameworks treating meaning-making as emergent from relational configurations—spatial diagrams, image schemas, and narrative structures—rather than essential properties, drawing on systems theory and cognitive linguistics.
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- Alexander's 15 Properties in Digital/Conscious Spaceaddresses_vector
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- Broadens the scope of life from aesthetics to a fundamental property.
- Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
- Affirmation that life is not merely subjective but an objective, calculable feature of space.
- Ontological claim that the life quality resides in the object, not the observer.
- Load-bearing assertion of objectivity, summarizing the chapter's thesis.
- A fundamental assertion about the relational nature of life.
- The fundamental thesis of the book: life is an emergent property of the structure of centers.
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