How do we know when one center is helping another one?

The practical question of identifying helping relations, answered by the with/without test.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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With/without comparison test for helping relation
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A practical test to determine if center B helps center A by comparing the life of A with and without B.

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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.

Helping between Centersconcept0.892
The mutual intensification of life among centers, which is the mechanism of both ornament and function.
Centers help one another: the existence and life of one center can intensify the life of another.claim0.827
The core mechanism by which wholeness gains life.
Each center is a field of other centers.quote0.794
The explicit recursive definition that forms the foundation of living structure.
A thing which has the field of centers always does make a person near it feel more whole.claim0.791
Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.785
The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.
What, then, is a center?question0.784
Question posed after describing the plenum, answered by the window metaphor.
minor centers supporting the main centerconcept0.783
Subsidiary centers that reinforce the main center of a room, often near windows or focal points.
Centers are always made of other centers.quote0.783
Encapsulates the recursive nature of centers, the key to understanding wholeness.