Life as we know it would not have been possible in a universe composed of Newtonian point masses with mutual gravitational attraction.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• The structures where life occurs just cannot be made in any other way.quote0.778
  Categorical assertion about the necessity of the living process.
• The structures where life occurs just cannot be made in any other way — it is a categorical and mathematical must.claim0.777
• "We could continue to invent new and exciting mechanisms beyond context-orientation and Worlds, ad absurdum, or recognise they are all just points within a dimensionally unbounded space of related, self-similar mechanisms."concept0.774
  Claim that many advanced programming paradigms reduce to parameterizations of the n-way associative model.
• "The universe is made of person-stuff. I always thought it was made of machine-stuff, but now I see that it is not."quote0.771
  Alexander's most dramatic statement of the post-Cartesian revolution in understanding
• "Newton didn't invent two terms—gravity (for terrestrial objects falling) and perhaps shmavity (for the moon)—because it would have lost out on the much more powerful unification."concept0.767
  Analogy supporting TAME as unifying framework, contrasting fragmented categorical thinking with powerful conceptual consolidation.
• Life is not a mechanical property but an inherent attribute of space itself, analogous to Maxwell's electromagnetic field creating light.claim0.765
  Proposition 1 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the most fundamental metaphysical claim of the theory.
• Without the features of quantum mechanics mentioned by Schrödinger, reliable biological reproduction of known forms of life would be impossible.claim0.765
  Sloman's endorsement that quantum stability is a necessary condition for life.
• Our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in. ... a complete unified theory that would cover everything in the universe.quote0.764
  Hawking's statement of the ambition of physics, which Alexander uses to show that a theory of everything that omits self is incomplete.