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question:what-is-the-origin-of-the-strength-that-makes-a-few-special-segments-stand-out-as-coherent-entities-to-create-wholenessWhat is the origin of the 'strength' that makes a few special segments stand out as coherent entities to create wholeness?
Early question driving the investigation into the features that make centers form.
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- Coherenceanswered_byA property that makes a segment of space stand out as a center; determined by symmetry, connectedness, convexity, etc.
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- The idea that centers are not built from pre-existing parts; instead, parts are generated by the wholeness, like a whirlpool in a stream.
- The central insight of the chapter: the fifteen properties all reduce to ways centers help each other
- Assertion that wholeness is a tangible spatial structure.
- Asserts the ontological reality of wholeness as a physical/mathematical structure.