The life of any given center depends on the whole field of centers in which this center exists.

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

• Centers themselves have life.claim0.879
  One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.
• The life of a center—even in a simple door—depends on the configuration of component centers and the wider system of centers around it.claim0.871
  Generalization from the door examples.
• Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.869
  The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.
• The life of a center is a phenomenon in which the center, like a window, makes contact with the plenum of absolute unity.claim0.853
  The definition of life in a center as contact with the absolute unity via tunneling.
• Centers help one another: the existence and life of one center can intensify the life of another.claim0.843
  The core mechanism by which wholeness gains life.
• The greater life in the animal comes from the field of centers which is created there, not from copying or 'realism'.claim0.842
  Extension of the previous claim, tying life directly to centers.
• 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.claim0.841
  Focus on anything else yields something else.
• Life comes from the wholeness, from the system of centers.quote0.839
  Summarizes the central thesis of the chapter.