Living configurations are hijackable in the good sense; manufactured systems are brittle to intervention.

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

• Most of the possible building configurations are dead ones; they do not have life.claim0.814
• ALL the well-ordered complex systems we know in the world, all those anyway that we view as highly successful, are GENERATED structures, not fabricated structures.claim0.795
  The central thesis of the chapter; supported by examples from nature, artifacts, and human settlements.
• All naturally occurring configurations lie in the set L of living structure; human-made configurations may lie outside L because humans can create unnatural forms.hypothesis0.791
• All systems in the world gain their life from the cooperation and interaction of the living centers they contain, in a bootstrap configuration.claim0.788
  Expansion of the concept from architecture to all systems.
• A living system is software reprogrammable to the extent that stimuli can be used to alter its behavior and functionality, as opposed to needing physical rewiring.claim0.787
  Proposed continuous redefinition of software/hardware distinction applicable to biological adaptation
• No principled limits to functionalization between living systems and inorganic machinery are known; hybrid functional systems can be constructed that are part living tissue and part smart electronics.claim0.779
  Strong claim that hybridization is unlimited in principle, making the life/machine binary conceptually untenable
• Robustness and plasticity in living systemsclaim0.777
• Living structure is enormously susceptible to minor changes, and accuracy of detail is necessary for success.claim0.775
  Warning that the recursion of centers requires extreme precision.