Beings can only be made of beings. If it is not made of beings, it cannot be a being.

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

• Everything you make must be a being.quote0.835
  A core directive from Book 4, p. 95, quoted to define the essence of living process in large buildings.
• Whatever you make must be a being.quote0.827
  The compressed, capsule-form instruction summarizing the fundamental process; a motto for the chapter.
• The single criterion of whether everything is made of beings correlates accurately with the presence of life in the environment.hypothesis0.798
  Testable hypothesis that the being-character is a reliable indicator of experienced life.
• "The universe is made of person-stuff. I always thought it was made of machine-stuff, but now I see that it is not."quote0.795
  Alexander's most dramatic statement of the post-Cartesian revolution in understanding
• The structures where life occurs just cannot be made in any other way.quote0.785
  Categorical assertion about the necessity of the living process.
• The structures where life occurs just cannot be made in any other way — it is a categorical and mathematical must.claim0.782
• The universe is made of person-stuff, not machine-stuff; life is the person-stuffclaim0.780
  Alexander's most radical ontological claim about the nature of living structure
• What Other Bodies And Minds Can Be Madequestion0.778