Harmony-seeking computation models can explain how coherent wholes emerge.

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• Harmony-Seeking Computationframework0.823
  A new form of computation that finds harmonious configurations by strengthening latent structures in a system while preserving the existing wholeness, applicable to buildings, towns, ecology, and natural systems.
• Harmony-seeking computation is value-oriented rather than value-free, judging configurations by their contribution to larger wholes.claim0.816
  Alexander's fundamental distinction between his framework and conventional computation, rejecting the premise that computation must be value-neutral.
• This harmony results because of a state of mind in which the makers actually see the wholeness directly and accurately: that is, they see the system of centers that forms the wholeness.claim0.809
  Cognitive basis of the traditional builder's ability.
• Harmony-Seeking Computationsconcept0.808
• Connectionist models of cognition and learning identify conditions where collective intelligence can arise bottom-up, using only distributed learning mechanisms without system-level or global feedback.claim0.774
  Central claim about the power of connectionism.
• Wholeness (Harmony-Seeking)concept0.769
• coherent wholesconcept0.767
  Integrated, living structures that emerge from morphogenetic piecemeal growth.
• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model, a process known as self-evidencing.claim0.767
  Foundational claim of the paper, defining self-evidencing.