The more centers are packed and overlapped, each helping and intensifying the others, the more an object comes to life.

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• Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.863
  Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
• The centers which bring life to a room are larger features which lie beyond the boundary of the room.claim0.853
  A key insight about position and context.
• Centers become most intense when the centers they are made of help each other.claim0.852
  The condition for maximum life in a center.
• A thing which has the field of centers always does make a person near it feel more whole.claim0.842
• Centers help one another: the existence and life of one center can intensify the life of another.claim0.840
  The core mechanism by which wholeness gains life.
• Centers are labile foci of wholeness, not things, and are ideally suited to enhance and enlarge the whole while being fused into it.claim0.831
  Definitional claim about the nature of centers and their role in unfolding.
• Certain configurations of centers have such organizing force that they create entirely new levels of intensity within the centers themselves and utterly transmute the material character of space.hypothesis0.827
  Suggests that sufficiently intense fields of centers transcend ordinary matter.
• Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.823
  The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.