Multi-scale coherence may be the cause of aliveness, or only its signature—the causal direction remains open.

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• Aliveness is a property of multi-scale coherence under transformation, not a property of substrate—making it substrate-neutral.claim0.838
• The living process must give rise to coherent entities at a middle range of scale.claim0.817
  Asserts middle-range entity emergence as a necessary output of any living process
• The steps of a living process always take place in a vitally important sequence, and coherence depends largely on the accuracy of this unfolding sequence.claim0.813
  Highlights that order of center formation is not arbitrary; the sequence from larger to smaller wholes is critical.
• Multi-scale competency likely explains the remarkable evolvability of living forms because it flattens the fitness landscape, allowing mutations' negative effects to be buffered while positive effects accumulate.claim0.809
  Mechanistic claim connecting multi-scale competency architecture to evolutionary robustness
• The aliveness structure appears in both biological and artificial systems in recognizable form.claim0.797
• The absence of life we recognize as a familiar problem of the past century comes about because the processes which create objects, artifacts, buildings, neighborhoods, agriculture, forests, towns, roads, bridges - nearly all fail to have the character of unfolding wholeness.claim0.794
  Diagnosis of modern lifelessness.
• The feeling that there is more life in one case than another is correlated with a structural difference in the things themselves, which can be made precise and measured.claim0.791
  Forward‑looking claim that the life quality has an objective basis, to be demonstrated later.
• The living structure emerges, slowly, step by step, and as the process goes forward step by step there is continuous feedback which allows the process to guide the system towards greater wholeness, and coherence, and adaptation.quote0.789
  Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.