The theory of centers works empirically: it has predictive force in predicting which structures people judge to have more life, across buildings, art, and natural systems.

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• Centers help one another: the existence and life of one center can intensify the life of another.claim0.814
  The core mechanism by which wholeness gains life.
• The life of any given center depends on the whole field of centers in which this center exists.claim0.813
  Key global property of the field of centers, making it non-local and unlike classical fields.
• Centers themselves have life.claim0.809
  One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.
• 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.claim0.804
  Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
• The structure which is created by a feeling for centers and by a conscious and deliberate aim towards the feeling of the whole, will often turn out to be an efficient structure.claim0.802
  Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.
• In buildings, especially, the success of the process will be judged by the extent to which these middle-range entities appear with their own distinct symmetries, with their own definite and distinct force as strong centers.claim0.801
  Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process
• The fifteen properties, the field of centers, and the wholeness thoroughly and completely determine the way that buildings work.claim0.801
  Universality claim that the same geometric properties govern both beauty and function.
• The experimental method of starting with a vision and adding color to create life in the centers has predictable results: the eleven invariants.claim0.797
  Assertion that the process yields a specific set of color qualities, listed in the chapter.