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concept:helping-relation

Helping Relation

The relation between two centers where the presence of one intensifies the life of the other.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

Concepts (2)

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  • Degree of life
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    The measure of how much living structure a thing possesses, ranging from high (tea bowl) to low (computer casing).
  • Bootstrap Relation
    associated_with
    The mutual support among centers where each raises the others to life, with no primary elements.

Chapters (1)

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  • Chapter 4 of Volume 1, The Phenomenon of Life, which explains how life arises from the wholeness of centers through mutual helping and recursion.

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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

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    Parnas's relation defining program dependences and minimal subsets.
  • The mutual intensification of life among centers, which is the mechanism of both ornament and function.
  • Versus-Relationconcept0.785
    Ternary relation xy|z defined on leaves of a tree as z ≰ x ∨ y; encodes the structure of evolutionary trees.
  • A practical test to determine if center B helps center A by comparing the life of A with and without B.
  • Supportmethod0.777
    Attribute: providing a foundation function, a text that acts as base or corroboration.
  • supportsconcept0.761
  • Binary Relationconcept0.752
    Fundamental structure (G, M, R) modeling objects with attributes; gives rise to polar maps and concept lattices.
  • Cooperationconcept0.750
    Competing or cooperating with neighbours; a plant behaviour.