The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process; it comes about only when the entire process is organized and concentrated on creating a living field.

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• The key lesson in all this is simple and extreme. The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process.quote0.892
  Emphasizes that creating living structure requires dedicated focus.
• The greater life in the animal comes from the field of centers which is created there, not from copying or 'realism'.claim0.844
  Extension of the previous claim, tying life directly to centers.
• The life of any given center depends on the whole field of centers in which this center exists.claim0.841
  Key global property of the field of centers, making it non-local and unlike classical fields.
• A living process only rarely creates living centers from scratch; it must use pre-established generic centers — patterns — encoding successful adaptationsclaim0.834
  Grounded in Holland's schemata theory and the biological gene analogy
• When centers are being created, a high proportion of them are locally symmetrical; living process is, in part, a process of creating local symmetries.claim0.827
• The wholeness and field of centers are not merely cognitive artifacts but are linked to the functional behavior of the natural world and are at the foundation of physics and biology.claim0.825
  Counters the skeptical cognitive interpretation by asserting the objective reality of centers in nature.
• The newly created centers work best, if they are based on something, some trace, that is there already.claim0.822
  The principle of preserving and intensifying existing centers, key to the fundamental process.
• The intricate and beautiful structure of living centers comes about naturally, and most of the time without effort, as a result of the repeated application of structure-preserving transformations to the wholeness which exists.claim0.822
  Central interpretive claim of the chapter, asserting that living structure is an effortless natural outcome of structure-preserving transformations.