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Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.

Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.

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The irregular jagged star had more life than any regular nine-pointed star tested over three months, because irregularity was in tune with the specific field of the building.
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Alexander's interpretive claim arising from the CES carpentry shop experiment, challenging the assumption that regularity produces more life.
A world constructed in the most personal and individual fashion, made by people following their true I, will be — in the most public, objective, universal sense — functional, adequate, and harmonious.
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Alexander's paradoxical conclusion that the most personally authentic making produces the most universally livable world.

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At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.858
Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
It is, ultimately, the process, not the design, which gives life to a building.claim0.844
Emphasizes process over blueprint.
The structure which is created by a feeling for centers and by a conscious and deliberate aim towards the feeling of the whole, will often turn out to be an efficient structure.claim0.843
Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.
The creation of living centers in the world increases the I in those who have contact with it.claim0.842
The process of creating a living building requires not merely redefining functions, but rearranging and redefining the centers of function — which then opens the door to a new comfortable lifeclaim0.833
Derived from the farmhouse kitchen case study in section 9
Space becomes more deeply functional and well-organized as it begins to resemble more deeply the human person; life in a center means the space begins to resemble the human selfclaim0.833
Extraordinary structural claim: functional organization converges on resemblance to the human self
The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.832
A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.831