Almost any social process can have a relatively more living character, or have a relatively less living character.

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• Possibly the most basic and necessary feature of any living process is the fact that it goes gradually.claim0.827
  Core thesis of the chapter: gradual, step-by-step progression is the bedrock of life.
• A living process is always natural, similar to the best kind of natural process, but it goes deeper and includes additional centers that naive natural process may miss.claim0.819
  Positions living process as an refined version of innate human creativity, not an artificial imposition.
• Living process may be characterized by the idea that it is the simplest process which exists in any given set of circumstances.claim0.812
  A core definitional claim about the nature of living process.
• A thing with more living structure makes the observer more of a person; a thing with less living structure makes the observer less of a personclaim0.812
  The experiential mechanism linking degree of life in objects to expansion or contraction of the observer's humanity
• The living process must give rise to coherent entities at a middle range of scale.claim0.808
  Asserts middle-range entity emergence as a necessary output of any living process
• When a system of living processes acts in a human environment, two kinds of structures will appear within reach of every person: a unique private world and an attached public world.hypothesis0.804
  Predictive claim about the automatic spatial output of living process
• If processes are in use which have these attributes, then we may have the real possibility of a living world.hypothesis0.803
  Conditional statement linking the adoption of morphogenetic processes to the emergence of a living world.
• Under a living process, as unfolding proceeds, the relative areas of these four components need to remain almost equal.claim0.803
  Invariant that living process maintains percentage balance.