centered (living geometry)

The quality of a geometry that has life, characterized by strong centers; the talisman for recognizing living structure.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

chapter

Chapter 6: Generated Structure
introduces
The chapter contrasts generated structures (complex, adapted, alive) with fabricated structures (designed, dead, full of mistakes), and argues that only generated structures can achieve deep complexity and avoid costly mistakes.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Centerednessconcept0.834
The defining mark of a center: the appearance of being a focal zone within a larger whole.
Centersconcept0.759
Primary entities of wholeness that arise from configurations and are activated in space; they have different levels of strength or coherence and are intensified by relationships with other centers.
Centers themselves have life.claim0.751
One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.
Theory of Wholeness (centers and life)framework0.747
The concept of wholeness as a system of centers at all scales, from Book 1; used as the structural basis for living process.
Wholeness and Centersframework0.747
Overarching conceptual scheme from The Nature of Order where a whole makes its parts, which are called centers, and centers intensify each other.
Centers are the fundamental entities of which the world is made.claim0.744
Ontological claim that centers, not particles or parts, are the building blocks of all phenomena.
Centers are above all, labile, they are foci of wholeness, they are not things, but regions, qualities, focal points of centeredness.quote0.744
Key definition capturing the non-atomic, relational nature of centers as fields rather than objects.
In Alexander's framework, a center's degree of life is a function of surrounding centers' configurations and their life-degree—a recursive definition.claim0.742