Centers are the fundamental entities of which the world is made.

Ontological claim that centers, not particles or parts, are the building blocks of all phenomena.

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Centers
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Primary entities of wholeness that arise from configurations and are activated in space; they have different levels of strength or coherence and are intensified by relationships with other centers.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

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

Centers are made of centers.claim0.874
The recursive composition principle, key to understanding wholeness.
Centers are always made of other centers.quote0.859
Encapsulates the recursive nature of centers, the key to understanding wholeness.
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.
Centers themselves have life.claim0.835
One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.
A center is a field of other centers.claim0.834
The explicit recursive definition that underpins living structure.
the center is not made from parts. Rather, it would be more true to say that most of the parts are created by the wholeness.quote0.827
Key reversal of the Cartesian parts-to-whole assumption: the whole generates the parts.
Centers are labile foci of wholeness, not things, and are ideally suited to enhance and enlarge the whole while being fused into it.claim0.821
Definitional claim about the nature of centers and their role in unfolding.
A thing which has the field of centers always does make a person near it feel more whole.claim0.819