"The principal features of a complex configuration are always created by overlap. Although this ... overlap may seem trivial [...] you will see that this kind of overlap, and ambiguity, is essential and pervasive. [...] This is the glue in any system of wholes. Wholeness itself is directly created by this apparent overlap, or ambiguity. The greater the number of overlapping wholes, the more tightly bound the configuration is, and the more deeply the wholeness of the object shows itself to be.
- Christopher Alexander (1936 - 2022)
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