The wholeness of a chair changes when scrap iron is brought near it, because the relative salience of centers reconfigures, redefining the chair itself.

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• If the unfolding of wholeness is correctly followed, then every part becomes unique.hypothesis0.770
  Prediction that adherence to the proper process guarantees uniqueness.
• The wholeness of a place is actually different — not merely perceived differently — when the cultural saliences of its occupants changeclaim0.769
  Argument illustrated by the chair-plus-scrap-iron and Point Lobos Yurok examples
• A tiny dot on a blank sheet thoroughly changes the wholeness globally, demonstrating that wholeness is extremely susceptible to small changes.claim0.769
  Illustrates the holistic sensitivity of wholeness.
• Structure-preserving transformations that continually modify wholeness slowly cause space to be filled with unfolded I-like centers.claim0.769
  Proposition 3 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim linking the mathematical process of unfolding to the emergence of I-likeness in natural and built structures.
• When I make something which has wholeness or life, I become more alive; when I make something dead, I become less alive.claim0.763
• This harmony results because of a state of mind in which the makers actually see the wholeness directly and accurately: that is, they see the system of centers that forms the wholeness.claim0.763
  Cognitive basis of the traditional builder's ability.
• How is this to happen? What kinds of center-creating steps can have such an impact that is both piecemeal and yet also helping to repair and enhance the whole at each step forward?question0.762
  Central driving question of the chapter, motivating the exposition of the fundamental process.
• Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.754
  Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.