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concept:space-coming-to-lifeSpace Coming to Life
The notion that space itself can become alive as a center emerges; a premise of the theory that is puzzling from a physics standpoint.
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- The fundamental unanswered question about the nature of life in space that the chapter addresses.
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- Central question about the nature of the awakening phenomenon.
- The idea that when centers are created, space itself becomes alive, like a bud opening.
- The idea that life is not merely an attribute of living organisms but an attribute of space itself; any spatial system can have more or less life depending on the life of its component centers and their density
- The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.
- Core thesis of the chapter: function is an awakening of the spatial medium.
- The final distillation of the chapter's argument, making life a fundamental property of matter/space.
- Life occurs in space not as an attribute of living organisms but as an attribute of space itselfclaim0.779Radical ontological claim that life is a property of spatial configuration itself, not limited to biological organisms; the degree of life depends on the coherence of centers
- Alexander's ontological claim that space itself becomes progressively more alive depending on the recursive structures built within it