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concept:essential-centerEssential Center
Centers whose presence is already latent in the field — going to the heart of the living structure already there and encapsulating the real life going on
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
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- Eternal Life in CentersextendsThe quality sought in pattern selection — that certain centers illuminate existence and bring people in touch with their eternal life, like Basho's poetry
- Image vs. Essential Contentassociated_withThe contrast between centers chosen for their outward impression (image) versus those chosen for essential content that goes to the root of life
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Distinguishing essential from trivial centers as the crux of making living pattern languages
- 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.
- The fundamental question about the nature of centers, addressed through recursive definition.
- Question posed after describing the plenum, answered by the window metaphor.
- A fundamental element or pattern of a place; each pattern in a language is a generic center that can be discussed and agreed upon one by one
- The overall configuration of interrelated centers that constitutes a whole.
- The explicit recursive definition that underpins living structure.
- Alexander's claim that finding centers which produce real life requires a spiritual attunement — asking what creates real deep life in people