Whatever you make must be a being.

The compressed, capsule-form instruction summarizing the fundamental process; a motto for the chapter.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

concept

Fundamental process
uses
The core iterative procedure that creates living structure; the engine of living process

claim

The fundamental process can be compressed to the instruction: Whatever you make must be a being.
uses
Summary claim that the entire process reduces to the single rule of making beings at all scales.

hypothesis

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Everything you make must be a being.quote0.938
A core directive from Book 4, p. 95, quoted to define the essence of living process in large buildings.
To make a thing which is one, I myself, the maker, must become one with the world.claim0.828
The maker's self-transformation as a prerequisite for creating unity.
Beings can only be made of beings. If it is not made of beings, it cannot be a being.claim0.827
A recursive rule: to be an I-like center, a center must be composed of centers which are themselves I-like.
In each of us, a person is existing, or waiting to exist; the most free version of that person occasionally appears briefly.claim0.775
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.quote0.771
Einstein's assertion invoked to explain why BMR preserves accuracy while reducing complexity
Only a very simple thing can be spiritual.claim0.768
Because all extraneous stuff must be removed to reach purity of heart.
Any made thing has the obligation to create experience of deep feeling in us.claim0.766
The universe is made of person-stuff, not machine-stuff; life is the person-stuffclaim0.765
Alexander's most radical ontological claim about the nature of living structure