It is the configuration as a whole that produces the local centers and allows them to 'settle out'.

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

• The life of any one center depends on the life of other centers and is a function of the whole configuration.claim0.812
  A fundamental assertion about the relational nature of life.
• When centers are being created, a high proportion of them are locally symmetrical; living process is, in part, a process of creating local symmetries.claim0.810
• The centers which exist in a configuration have a real mathematical existence and are actually occurring features of the space itself.claim0.804
  Strengthens the claim that centers are not just psychological but physically real.
• Certain configurations of centers have such organizing force that they create entirely new levels of intensity within the centers themselves and utterly transmute the material character of space.hypothesis0.801
  Suggests that sufficiently intense fields of centers transcend ordinary matter.
• Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.800
  Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
• The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process; it comes about only when the entire process is organized and concentrated on creating a living field.claim0.794
  Focus on anything else yields something else.
• The more centers are packed and overlapped, each helping and intensifying the others, the more an object comes to life.claim0.790
  The formula for profound life, as seen in the Temple of Hera.
• The life of a center—even in a simple door—depends on the configuration of component centers and the wider system of centers around it.claim0.790
  Generalization from the door examples.