larger wholes

The broader field of centers that encompasses a given center; a successful center contributes to and is shaped by these larger wholes.

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chapter

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

The wholeconcept0.820
The overarching coherence and unity that must be enhanced at every step; the target of all living process.
Wholenessconcept0.809
Alexander's core concept rejecting the idea that a whole consists of parts; instead, a whole makes its parts (called 'centers').
coherent wholesconcept0.789
Integrated, living structures that emerge from morphogenetic piecemeal growth.
Wholeness creates partsconcept0.776
The idea that centers are not built from pre-existing parts; instead, parts are generated by the wholeness, like a whirlpool in a stream.
Whole Governsconcept0.776
The driving principle that in a living process the larger whole, even when only latent, always controls the shaping of the parts.
paying attention to the wholenessconcept0.769
The act of seeing and feeling the entire field of centers at a place, which Alexander equates with love of life.
seeing wholeness accuratelyconcept0.765
The perceptual capacity to grasp the structure of wholeness directly, without interposing categories; very difficult to learn but essential for structure‑preserving making.
What exactly, then, is wholeness?question0.761
Central question of the chapter, answered by defining wholeness as the structure of nested centers.