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 self

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• When something works, or is functional, its space is awakened to a very high degree. It becomes alive. The space itself becomes alive.claim0.837
  Core thesis of the chapter: function is an awakening of the spatial medium.
• 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.claim0.836
  Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
• The geometry of space plays an enormous role in the presence or absence of deep human life: centers in space either support or hinder the evolution of free life.claim0.835
  Synthesis of geometry and life.
• What is it? What is this thing which happens as space comes to life? What is the life of a center, which then multiplies and blossoms to form the life of buildings, ornaments ... and perhaps even the life of living things?question0.833
  The fundamental unanswered question about the nature of life in space that the chapter addresses.
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.833
  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.
• Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.828
  Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
• Life is exactly that property of space in which each spot becomes unique according to its place in the larger scheme of things.claim0.827
  Definitional claim equating life with spatial uniqueness.
• Life and living structure will appear in the world inevitably because the mathematical way space gives rise to structure necessarily reinforces wholeness as part of its most normal evolution.claim0.825
  Alexander's strongest ontological claim: living structure is not probabilistically improbable but mathematically necessary given the principle of unfolding wholeness