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concept:generic-centerGeneric center
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
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- Pattern-Gene Analogyassociated_withThe analogy between cultural patterns and biological genes: both are memorized solutions to recurring problems that enable adaptive reuse
- The precise reformulation: each pattern is a rule describing a type of strong center needed on a recurring basis and the relations among neighboring centers
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- Always Making CentersmentionsChapter 10 of The Nature of Order, Vol 2, describing the process of creating living centers through differentiation and the fundamental process.
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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.
- 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 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
- Question posed after describing the plenum, answered by the window metaphor.
- The overall configuration of interrelated centers that constitutes a whole.
- The explicit recursive definition that underpins living structure.
- Configurational entities existing implicitly in a structure; guide perception and generation of next morphogenetic step; exemplified in St Mark's square cycles.
- Overarching conceptual scheme from The Nature of Order where a whole makes its parts, which are called centers, and centers intensify each other.
- The fundamental question about the nature of centers, addressed through recursive definition.