The Nature of Order

Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Gradients
You have noticed I am sure, as I have, that almost anything which has real
life has a certain softness. Qualities vary, slowly, subtly, gradually, across the
extent of each thing. Gradients occur. One quality changes slowly across
space, and becomes another.
Almost always the strengthened field-like character of the center is caused, in
part, by the fact that an organization of smaller centers creates gradients
which “point to” some new and larger virtual center. Sometimes the arrows
and gradients set up in the field give the center its primary strength.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
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