The environment is good, or bad, according to the degree that its thousands of centers are pictures of the self, i.e., beings.

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

• The environment is good, or bad, according to the degree that its thousands and thousands of centers are pictures of the self, what we might call 'beings'.quote0.977
  The chapter's central evaluative conclusion, summarizing the beings criterion.
• The environment is pleasant, beautiful, humane and people can achieve a true sense of belonging and love for the places where they live.claim0.853
  Overall qualitative evaluation of the planned environment.
• The best environment for human life is one which gives people the maximum chance to be free, allowing each person to react appropriately.claim0.786
  Definition of optimal environment.
• The forms of environment we have learned to create in modern times have caused us to lose the sense of true connection to ourselves and our society.claim0.782
  Directly blames the design of modern space for severing self- and social connection
• 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.claim0.780
  Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
• The self-like character of the environment has a direct impact on us: it nourishes us, supports us, and provides freedom.claim0.779
  Mirror-of-the-self effect.
• The environment affects us, and it is perhaps through our rooms that it does it most.claim0.776
  Opening claim about the importance of room character.
• The quality of living centers requires the positive-ness and thus the being-ness of each part that lies between two parts.claim0.775
  Claim that the spaces between elements must themselves be living centers.