The life which appears is an attribute of space itself.

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• Life occurs in space not as an attribute of living organisms but as an attribute of space itselfclaim0.891
  Radical ontological claim that life is a property of spatial configuration itself, not limited to biological organisms; the degree of life depends on the coherence of centers
• Life is exactly that property of space in which each spot becomes unique according to its place in the larger scheme of things.claim0.861
  Definitional claim equating life with spatial uniqueness.
• Life as Inherent Attribute of Spaceconcept0.858
  Alexander's Proposition 1: that life is not a mechanical property but a quality that space itself has, analogous to Maxwell's electromagnetic field.
• 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.claim0.855
  Alexander's strongest ontological claim: living structure is not probabilistically improbable but mathematically necessary given the principle of unfolding wholeness
• The idea that life is an inherent attribute of space itself is not merely an artificial theoretical device but is actually true, because it is needed for the recursion in the mathematics to work consistently.hypothesis0.851
  Alexander's conditional prediction: if the recursive calculus works, then life-as-attribute-of-space must be a real feature of the universe.
• What we call 'life' is a general condition which exists, to some degree or other, in every part of space: brick, stone, grass, river, painting, building, daffodil, human being, forest, city.quote0.840
  Verbatim statement of the fundamental hypothesis, defining the scope of life.
• What we call 'life' is a general condition which exists, to some degree or other, in every part of space... every connected region of space... has some degree of life, and that this degree of life is well defined, objectively existing, and measurable.hypothesis0.839
  The central predictive/causal hypothesis of the book, to be tested in later chapters.
• Life (property of space)concept0.824
  The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.