A thing which has the field of centers always does make a person near it feel more whole.

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• Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.849
  Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
• Centers are above all, labile, they are foci of wholeness, they are not things, but regions, qualities, focal points of centeredness.quote0.845
  Key definition capturing the non-atomic, relational nature of centers as fields rather than objects.
• The more centers are packed and overlapped, each helping and intensifying the others, the more an object comes to life.claim0.842
  The formula for profound life, as seen in the Temple of Hera.
• A center is a field of other centers.claim0.841
  The explicit recursive definition that underpins living structure.
• Each center is a field of other centers.quote0.840
  The explicit recursive definition that forms the foundation of living structure.
• Even one act of making the field of centers changes a person, bringing calmness, quietness, and peacefulness.claim0.840
• The wholeness and field of centers are not merely cognitive artifacts but are linked to the functional behavior of the natural world and are at the foundation of physics and biology.claim0.837
  Counters the skeptical cognitive interpretation by asserting the objective reality of centers in nature.
• Centers help one another: the existence and life of one center can intensify the life of another.claim0.835
  The core mechanism by which wholeness gains life.