Choice among alternatives as a group design strategy does not work realistically because alternatives differ on too many dimensions simultaneously for consensus to form

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• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.773
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• The collective often displays new behaviors or preferences that are not simply the sum of individual cell behaviors.claim0.762
  Key property of collective intelligence: emergent behaviors at the group level.
• Our present forms of planning, design, construction, and production are deeply flawed because they do not include step-by-step adaptation and cannot in principle do so as they are.claim0.755
  Sweeping indictment of current production systems.
• Intervention on a balanced subspace dimension while holding others fixed crosses the decision boundary using a non-native mechanismfinding0.754
  Additional synthetic example of pernicious divergence from balanced subspaces
• Variant concepts should have similar behaviors; otherwise, users are surprised and modularity suffers.claim0.754
  Uniformity criterion.
• The four concept criteria (motivation, no redundancy, no overloading, uniformity) are neither necessary nor sufficient but can explain design flaws.claim0.751
  Acknowledging the heuristic nature of the criteria.
• Smith & Boyd (1991) criteria are irrelevant across the vast majority of the space of possible agents.claim0.751
  Dismissal of earlier criteria as too narrow.
• Design choices propagate causally to subsequent centers through the unfolding mechanism itself.claim0.750