Concentrate on essential functions and omit embellishments.

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• How, in practice, can a person keep paying attention to the whole; how can one achieve successful differentiation and structure-enhancing transformations at every step?question0.743
• This is focused on beauty. It is brutal, only because, to do it, we must forget our responsibilities and the subtleties of site and function, and enter the play of pure forms with as much emphasis on feeling, art, and structure alone as we can.claim0.739
  Defines brutality as the temporary forgetting of practical responsibilities to focus purely on structural beauty
• At every step, the process does its utmost to enhance the structure of the whole, and shapes its parts to make this enhancement happen.claim0.731
  Central normative statement of the living process; defines the correct unfolding.
• This quality, whether it occurs in a great work or a small work, always has the same essential purpose: to make a connection to the I, to reach, in material substance, the face of God.claim0.727
  The purpose of all living quality is to connect to the I.
• Acting to optimize value and perception are two aspects of exactly the same principle: minimization of free energy.claim0.722
  Foundational claim unifying action and perception within single optimization framework.
• My method requires that we focus on the inner reality of the observer's feeling of wholesomeness as well.claim0.720
  Description of the new method's core.
• The function of a thing and its ornament are not two separable features; they are inseparable.claim0.720
  Argument that practical function and ornamental beauty are one when a thing is well made.
• How is this to happen? What kinds of center-creating steps can have such an impact that is both piecemeal and yet also helping to repair and enhance the whole at each step forward?question0.720
  Central driving question of the chapter, motivating the exposition of the fundamental process.