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Not-separateness is finally perhaps the most important property of all—without it even a center with the other fourteen properties can be strangely separate, lonely, too egocentric

Claim that connectedness to surroundings is the culminating property; without it, beautiful centers shout 'look at me' rather than healing

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Not-Separateness
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The property that a living whole is at one with the world, not separate from it; the center melts into its surroundings, the boundary is fragmented or incomplete, and there is a profound connection rather than isolation—perhaps the most important property of all

Related by similarity (8)

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.

Not-separateness is evident in the deep interconnectedness of all things, as suggested by Mach's principle and Bell's theorem.claim0.844
Not-separateness simply means that a thing which is whole will be made, in the end, only by the genuine desire, on the part of the maker, not to be separate from the world.claim0.838
Redefinition of not-separateness in terms of the maker's intention.
ECHOES and NOT-SEPARATENESS are two of the properties which most strongly tie things together, and create this inner unity in them.claim0.831
Two specific properties from the 15 Properties framework are identified as primary drivers of felt unity.
I cannot make a thing which has this not-separateness, unless I honestly want it.claim0.813
The necessity of sincere desire for not-separateness on the part of the maker.
All properties are relational; no properties are essential or absoluteclaim0.783
Foundational claim that meaning and value in diagrammatic systems emerge only from relations between elements, not from intrinsic properties.
The fifteen properties are not independent; they overlap, and each property is partly defined in terms of the other fifteen propertiesclaim0.781
Meta-claim about the logical structure of the properties: the more carefully each is defined, the more it relies on the others, revealing their common origin in the field of centers
The fifteen structural properties are not the most fundamental aspect of the theory; they are consequences of the existence of centers and their interdependence.claim0.777
Alexander's retrospective account of how his theory evolved, demoting the fifteen properties from foundational to derivative status.
I finally recognized that it is the field of centers which is primary, not these fifteen properties, and that the properties are simply aspects of the field which help us to understand concretely how the field works.quote0.775
Meta-theoretical revelation about the ontological priority of the field of centers over the fifteen properties