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claim:creativity-is-not-inserting-entirely-new-structure-but-revealing-what-is-already-there-serving-the-wholenessCreativity is not inserting entirely new structure but revealing what is already there, serving the wholeness.
Reconception of creativity as attentive revelation rather than arbitrary invention.
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- Chapter 12: Every Part UniqueintroducesThe chapter itself, arguing that living process creates uniqueness at every scale.
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- Creativity comes about when we discover the new within a structure already latent in the present.quote0.880Alexander's definition of genuine creativity, opposing arbitrary image-making.
- Alexander's definition of true creativity.
- The emergent human capacity that Nicholson argues is enabled by loose parts in environments.
- Claim that the emergence of new forms, often considered mysterious, is explainable through repeated intensification of latent structure.
- Asserts the ontological reality of wholeness as a physical/mathematical structure.
- The most profound claim of the chapter: the niceness of the sequence is directly perceptible in the built form and is the ultimate source of living quality.