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The ultimate criterion for choosing centers is which ones will create spiritual awakening in a person or a person's life — producing real deep life

Alexander's final criterion for pattern selection in section 14

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Spiritual State Required for Finding Essential Centers
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Alexander's claim that finding centers which produce real life requires a spiritual attunement — asking what creates real deep life in people

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what is real life in a person? what kind of thing will produce real, deep life in an event?
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The spiritual question Alexander identifies as the foundation of choosing essential centers
which kinds of centers will do the most to produce real spiritual life in people?
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The ultimate criterion question for pattern selection in Alexander's framework

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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.claim0.800
Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
There must be some relation between the ultimate nature of a living center and the nature of the I.hypothesis0.796
The hypothesis that the deepest aspect of centers is identical with the I-like presence.
Every living center may be distinguished as living, to the degree that it is a picture of the eternal self.claim0.795
Central proposition from Book 1 that grounds the beings model.
Centers help one another: the existence and life of one center can intensify the life of another.claim0.795
The core mechanism by which wholeness gains life.
Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.794
The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.
When the field of centers appears in something, its deep feeling appears and it is literally as though spirit is made manifest.claim0.789
First articulation of the identity between the field of centers and spirit.
Centers which have life increase our own life because we ourselves are centers too; we feel more wholesome in the presence of things which have wholesomeness in themclaim0.788
Describes a resonance mechanism between living centers in the world and the center that is the human self
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.claim0.787
Alexander's summary claim in the Mid-Book Appendix that the theory meets the scientific criterion of predictive force.