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question:which-kinds-of-centers-will-do-the-most-to-produce-real-spiritual-life-in-peoplewhich kinds of centers will do the most to produce real spiritual life in people?
The ultimate criterion question for pattern selection in Alexander's framework
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- Alexander's final criterion for pattern selection in section 14
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- Centers help one another: the existence and life of one center can intensify the life of another.claim0.777The core mechanism by which wholeness gains life.
- One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.
- The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.
- Central proposition from Book 1 that grounds the beings model.
- The life of any given center depends on the whole field of centers in which this center exists.claim0.760Key global property of the field of centers, making it non-local and unlike classical fields.
- Describes a resonance mechanism between living centers in the world and the center that is the human self
- The quality sought in pattern selection — that certain centers illuminate existence and bring people in touch with their eternal life, like Basho's poetry
- At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.757Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.