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concept:cultural-wholenessCultural Wholeness
The claim that culture modifies the physical salience of centers in a place and is therefore part of wholeness in a physically real sense
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- Wholenessextendsrelated_toAlexander's core concept rejecting the idea that a whole consists of parts; instead, a whole makes its parts (called 'centers').
- Trobriand Village Circleassociated_withThe archetypal Trobriand village arrangement as example of culture-specific pattern language embodying a whole way of life in physical form
- Cross-Cultural Invariant Core of Patternsassociated_withThe subset of patterns common to all cultures, rooted in deep human psychology rather than cultural specifics, sketched in A Pattern Language
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- Vol 2 — Chapter 13: PatternsintroducesWorking chapter of The Process of Creating Life discussing pattern languages as generic rules for making centers and their role in unfolding living structure from cultural wholeness
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- Overarching conceptual scheme from The Nature of Order where a whole makes its parts, which are called centers, and centers intensify each other.
- Central question of the chapter, answered by defining wholeness as the structure of nested centers.
- The experiential correlate of deep wholeness; the personal, emotional recognition of life in a structure.
- The idea that wholeness goes beyond structural order, becoming a single, melted unity that connects us directly with the ground (the I), experienced as inner light.
- Argument illustrated by the chair-plus-scrap-iron and Point Lobos Yurok examples
- The phenomenon that making something alive nourishes the maker like food.
- Assertion that wholeness is a tangible spatial structure.