Four features will be fundamental: (1) all processes rethought as morphogenetic; (2) sequences link into a net; (3) continuous evolution becomes widespread; (4) an ethical obligation to heal the land emerges.

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• If the evolution of the natural world follows a step-by-step process in which each step is structure-preserving, then the fifteen properties will appear more and more often, and the degree of life in the wholeness will increase steadily.hypothesis0.812
  Conditional statement linking smooth unfolding to the progressive emergence of the fifteen properties and increased life.
• What features of morphogenesis enable evolution to search a difficult space with pleiotropy, degeneracy, and redundancy so rapidly and effectively?question0.805
  Core open problem: asks how cellular competency affords evolutionary speed and robustness despite the ruggedness of the genotype-phenotype mapping.
• Possibly the most basic and necessary feature of any living process is the fact that it goes gradually.claim0.805
  Core thesis of the chapter: gradual, step-by-step progression is the bedrock of life.
• The key to the idea that will allow a system of workable morphogenetic sequences to evolve in a not-too great length of time, is highlighted in the genetic ideas of John Holland.quote0.805
  Explicitly credits Holland's work as the inspiration for the snippable genes approach.
• The larger task of making these processes genuinely morphogenetic so that they generate deeper and more coherent living structure—still lies on the horizon.claim0.802
• Three key empirical propositions: morphogenesis generates sustainability; handles all sustainability issues together; reorients toward wholenesshypothesis0.799
• The fifteen properties emerge directly and inevitably from the unfolding of the whole; it is these fifteen properties that guide all differentiations during development.claim0.798
  Alexander's claim that living structure properties are not incidental but are the operative mechanisms of wholeness-preserving transformation
• It is essential now to develop frameworks that pick out what is deep and fundamental about sentient beings – not frozen accidents of evolution on the N=1 example of the phylogenetic path of life on Earth.claim0.796
  Core prescription for future sentience frameworks.