The birthday cake ceremony instantiates a pure and simple field of centers, which is why it carries such poignant meaning and touching memories

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• A thing which has the field of centers always does make a person near it feel more whole.claim0.758
• The Indian namaste greeting instantiates local symmetry, strong center, and gradient, encoding field-of-centers structure in a universal greetingclaim0.754
  Extends field-of-centers analysis to cross-cultural ritual gesture
• A flower is one of the most perfect fields of centers that occur in nature, which explains why flowers are universally experienced as beautifulclaim0.750
  Explains universal aesthetic response to flowers via field-of-centers theory
• When you make a beautiful thing, the depth of the person within becomes more vivid, lives more intensely for a moment.claim0.740
• In a well-made chisel, the geometric centers correspond exactly to the centers of action, and they help each other.claim0.740
  Illustrates how functional excellence is achieved through mutual intensification of centers.
• The mere list of centers in a pattern language, just from their naming, already conveys a profound atmosphere and defines the life of the place to an enormous degreeclaim0.738
  Demonstrated via the Samarkand pattern language list which immediately evokes magical atmosphere
• Often the conceptual picture a person has of a place is an invented convention at odds with the wholeness that exists, and it is even difficult for modern people to see the wholeness.claim0.738
  Epistemological/phenomenological claim about perception.
• What is the connection between the abstract phenomenon we have learned to identify as the field of centers, and the depth of feeling which appears as the 'emotional substance' of a work?question0.737