What exactly is a center?

The fundamental question about the nature of centers, addressed through recursive definition.

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Recursive Definition of Center
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The principle that a center can only be defined in terms of other centers; centers are made of centers.

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What, then, is a center?question0.923
Question posed after describing the plenum, answered by the window metaphor.
Centersconcept0.885
Primary entities of wholeness that arise from configurations and are activated in space; they have different levels of strength or coherence and are intensified by relationships with other centers.
A center is a field of other centers.claim0.855
The explicit recursive definition that underpins living structure.
Centers are made of centers.claim0.839
The recursive composition principle, key to understanding wholeness.
field of centersconcept0.808
The overall configuration of interrelated centers that constitutes a whole.
Wholeness and Centersframework0.802
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 the fundamental entities of which the world is made.claim0.798
Ontological claim that centers, not particles or parts, are the building blocks of all phenomena.
Just what is a center? What does it really mean for a center to come to life? What is the intrinsic meaning of the character of its 'life'?question0.798
Series of questions highlighting the explanatory gap before the plenum model.