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A property that makes a segment of space stand out as a center; determined by symmetry, connectedness, convexity, etc.
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Concepts (5)
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- long-range coherencerelated_toAbility to maintain structural consistency over extended sequences
- strategic coherencerelated_toThe ability to integrate spending efficiency, resource discipline, and adaptive phase play under competitive pressure.
- Bilateral Coherencerelated_toPercentage of time a model's assessment of the veracity of base and entailed properties match, given the entailing statement is true.
- Coherence Score (C)related_toGPT-4o scored 0-100 metric from Betley et al. measuring response coherence on open-ended evaluation prompts
- Wholenessassociated_withAlexander's core concept rejecting the idea that a whole consists of parts; instead, a whole makes its parts (called 'centers').
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- Early question driving the investigation into the features that make centers form.
Chapters (1)
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- Wholeness And The Theory Of CentersintroducesThe chapter that introduces the fundamental concepts of wholeness and centers, laying the groundwork for understanding life in buildings.
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- GPT-4.1-mini-rated 0-100 score measuring response coherence; used to detect side effects of steering
- Von der Malsburg's concept, adopted by the paper, that consciousness is a coherence-maximizing pattern minimizing constraint violations between simultaneous partial models
- The functional role consciousness plays: minimizing constraint violations between simultaneously active partial models of reality
- GPT-4.1-mini based score (0-100) measuring clarity, absence of hallucinations, and lack of confusion in generated text
- Rapid breakdown of output quality under strong or out-of-distribution activation steering, the main problem this paper addresses
- Finding that relative coherence rankings remain constant across different people and across different cognitive processing tasks (description, memorization, tachistoscopic recognition), establishing coherence as an objective feature of cognitive processing
- Measure of whether LMs follow contrapositive logic: if A→B is asserted true and B is false, then A should be false.
- The property of a building's structural order having its own laws and beauty independent of surroundings; the source of the brutal moment's necessity