Preciousness of Centers

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

• A center becomes precious because it is helping some larger center to exist and have life. This preciousness is the vital core of every center.claim0.857
  Defines the qualitative shift from neutral space to living center.
• Wholeness and Centersframework0.821
  Overarching conceptual scheme from The Nature of Order where a whole makes its parts, which are called centers, and centers intensify each other.
• Centers are made of centers.claim0.800
  The recursive composition principle, key to understanding wholeness.
• Centers are the fundamental entities of which the world is made.claim0.799
  Ontological claim that centers, not particles or parts, are the building blocks of all phenomena.
• Eternal Life in Centersconcept0.798
  The quality sought in pattern selection — that certain centers illuminate existence and bring people in touch with their eternal life, like Basho's poetry
• A center is a field of other centers.claim0.788
  The explicit recursive definition that underpins living structure.
• Salience of Centersconcept0.787
  The relative strength or prominence of a center within a wholeness field; argued to be physically modified by culture and context
• Centers are always made of other centers.quote0.786
  Encapsulates the recursive nature of centers, the key to understanding wholeness.