Living matter, while not eluding the 'laws of physics' as established up to date, is likely to involve 'other laws of physics' hitherto unknown.

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

• Matter-space must be potentially living, center-making, possibly even conscious stuff.claim0.789
  A key proposition for the new cosmology: space-matter has the inherent capacity for life and self-connection when centers intensify.
• A new form of physics, a modified physics, must reconcile self and matter, extending current physics while leaving it nearly intact.claim0.778
  The positive program of the chapter: a cosmology that makes sense of architecture and self.
• No alternative to molecular explanation of hereditary substance exists; physical laws leave no other possibility.claim0.777
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.777
• The material implementation and back-story of a given system are not sufficient information to reliably place it into a category of machine vs. living being.claim0.774
  Core ontological claim: composition and origin story are contingent, not essential, classifiers
• Present-day physics is completely governed by a system of differential equations... this entire rich system is now completely contained in a single theorem, the principle of least action.quote0.771
  Planck's statement cited to establish the generality and indispensability of least action before Alexander argues it is still insufficient
• There is nothing except the living structure of the world, and this living structure is all we need to reason with.claim0.770
  Radical assertion that function reduces to living structure, eliminating the need for external goals.
• The existence of living structure, as defined in The Nature of Order, requires modifications in our physical picture of the world, not only in the picture we have of architecture.claim0.769
  The closing claim of the chapter's mid-book appendix, asserting that the theory of centers has implications for physics.