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concept:food-like-character-of-making-wholenessFood-like Character of Making Wholeness
The phenomenon that making something alive nourishes the maker like food.
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- 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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- Generalization from personal and student experience.
- Central puzzle motivating the chapter.
- The idea that centers are not built from pre-existing parts; instead, parts are generated by the wholeness, like a whirlpool in a stream.
- The claim that culture modifies the physical salience of centers in a place and is therefore part of wholeness in a physically real sense