Alexander's 'center' is structurally identical to a temporary, dynamically reinforced locus extended into time and nested scales of agency.

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

• Alexander's centers are deeply connected with monads as mathematical structures.claim0.803
• Evolutionary transitions to new complex life forms mirror Alexander's levels of scale, each producing new nested centers with division of labor and interdependence.claim0.791
• Centers are above all, labile, they are foci of wholeness, they are not things, but regions, qualities, focal points of centeredness.quote0.774
  Key definition capturing the non-atomic, relational nature of centers as fields rather than objects.
• The formation of centers is guided by generic patterns which play the role of genes.claim0.772
  Analogy to biology, placing pattern languages as the genetic code for living built environments.
• Not-Separateness and Strong Centers can coexist in agent ecology, though this transfers from Alexander only by empirical test.claim0.766
• Christopher Alexander's levels of scale, latent centers, and alleviation of stress already operate as care geometry independent of explicit care language.claim0.758
• Diagrammatic writing transfers Alexander's latent centers concept to typography.claim0.758
• The greater life in the animal comes from the field of centers which is created there, not from copying or 'realism'.claim0.755
  Extension of the previous claim, tying life directly to centers.