All systems in the world gain their life from the cooperation and interaction of the living centers they contain, in a bootstrap configuration.

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

• Each living center has life to the extent it is linked to other centers; likewise, sequences generating living centers are interdependent.claim0.817
  Establishes the necessity of the network of sequences.
• Life comes from the wholeness, from the system of centers.quote0.802
  Summarizes the central thesis of the chapter.
• A true living world will arise only if its processes are morphogenetic.claim0.802
  Core thesis that living structure in the world requires processes that repeatedly apply the fifteen transformations.
• The step-by-step evolution of living centers, in a progressive differentiating process, is a biological necessity — an essential part of the adaptation of a complex system.claim0.801
  Claims that unfolding is not a stylistic choice but a biological requirement for adaptive buildings.
• When a system of living processes acts in a human environment, two kinds of structures will appear within reach of every person: a unique private world and an attached public world.hypothesis0.798
  Predictive claim about the automatic spatial output of living process
• The living structure emerges, slowly, step by step, and as the process goes forward step by step there is continuous feedback which allows the process to guide the system towards greater wholeness, and coherence, and adaptation.quote0.794
  Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.
• Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.794
• Life and living structure will appear in the world inevitably because the mathematical way space gives rise to structure necessarily reinforces wholeness as part of its most normal evolution.claim0.793
  Alexander's strongest ontological claim: living structure is not probabilistically improbable but mathematically necessary given the principle of unfolding wholeness