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Close-knit adaptation of system elements arising over time is central observable in nature and human-formed ecological systems but eludes simple algorithmic formulation.

Alexander's core assertion that subtle adaptive processes are too simple and common-sense-based for conventional computation but profoundly important.

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Harmony-Seeking Computations: a Science of Non-Classical Dynamics based on the Progressive Evolution of the Larger Whole

(2022) · Alexander, Christopher

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Causal emergence in biological systems
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Examines how macro-scale causal power exceeds micro-scale in living and learning systems.
Autopoietic organization and nested autonomy
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Systems that self-produce through functionally closed loops, organizing hierarchically with peripheralized non-autonomous subsystems, inspired by Maturana and Varela's autopoiesis framework.
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Focuses on tight mutual adjustment among system elements over time, resisting algorithmic formalization.

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Harmony-Seeking Computation
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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.

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Definition of the essential mechanism of living structure formation.
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.quote0.805
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The complex nature of functional relationships between component parts begins to look less like the product of selection at the system level, and more like the source of evolutionary individuality.claim0.800
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