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claim:recursion-not-only-strengthens-centers-but-causes-the-appearance-of-pictures-of-the-self-throughout-every-nook-and-cranny-of-a-region-of-space

Recursion not only strengthens centers but causes the appearance of pictures of the self throughout every nook and cranny of a region of space.

A key mechanism claim linking the structural recursion to the saturation of space with I-like beingness.

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Recursion of centers
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The process by which centers are built up, strengthened, and toughened from other centers, deepening their I-like quality.

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How is a modern person to interpret the idea that space becomes filled with I-like stuff and thousands of pictures of the self?
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The central challenge of the chapter to the reader's worldview.

Related by similarity (8)

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

Life itself is a recursive effect which occurs in space. It can only be understood recursively as the mutual intensification of life by life.claim0.771
Attempts to define life-in-space without external reference.
Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.770
Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
The degree of life of each center is correlated with the degree to which that center is a picture of the self, and this holds for all people, not just individuals.claim0.770
Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
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 selfclaim0.768
Extraordinary structural claim: functional organization converges on resemblance to the human self
Contrast, instead of separating things, brings them together when used to help centers become alive; contrast that fails to create deeper feeling is merely accidental or eye-catchingclaim0.765
Claim distinguishing good contrast (Shaker schoolroom, which unifies) from bad contrast (glaring lobby staircase, which separates)
There exists a new type of physical field (the field of centers) whose intensity at each point is a function of the intensities at other points, making it self-dependent and recursive.hypothesis0.764
Proposed to explain how life can emerge from space itself.
We do not currently possess any convenient mathematical representation of a recursive field like the field of centers.claim0.763
Acknowledges that the bootstrap field is beyond current physics and mathematics.
The field of centers, or some version of it, is a recursive structure in space which serves as the bridge between matter and consciousness.claim0.762
The claim that the field of centers is the mechanism linking matter and mind.