Differentiation yields a larger infinity of configurations than the modular combination of fixed parts, and the resulting character is more genuinely organic.

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• Parts created during the process of differentiation must become locally unique; otherwise the process is not a living process.claim0.801
  Necessary condition that prevents mechanical mass-production and enforces local adaptation.
• 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.claim0.789
  Inverts the causal arrow: relationships produce individuality, not vice versa.
• H1: Individuality requires a dynamical process (development), mediating the plastic expression of components in the context of one another, with the specific form of computing a collective character that is a non-linearly separable function of (embryonic) particle characters, with the effect of coordinating reproduction based on this collective character.hypothesis0.788
  Main hypothesis about the architecture of individuality
• In general, the geometry will be created by differentiation, not by addition or accretion; the parts are given their dimensions by differentiating operations within the spatial shell.claim0.786
  A formal principle of the living process that uniqueness emerges from successive differentiation.
• The fifteen properties emerge directly and inevitably from the unfolding of the whole; it is these fifteen properties that guide all differentiations during development.claim0.776
  Alexander's claim that living structure properties are not incidental but are the operative mechanisms of wholeness-preserving transformation
• All naturally occurring configurations lie in the set L of living structure; human-made configurations may lie outside L because humans can create unnatural forms.hypothesis0.770
• Morphogenesis guarantees that coherent wholes will form even while the piecemeal process allows each place to be unique.claim0.770
  Key property of morphogenetic process: it produces both unity and diversity simultaneously.
• Almost any social process can have a relatively more living character, or have a relatively less living character.claim0.767