Living structure and the process of creating it has a positive effect on the process of creation, similar to the Mozart effect.

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• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.858
• To create living structure we must find our own contemporary version of the I—a new vision of the universe in which meaning exists, relatedness and self have a primary place, and which is as real for us as God was in Mozart's heart.claim0.849
  The central challenge of the chapter: we need a new cosmology with the same existential weight as historical religion.
• Such a process will not—in general—create living structure.claim0.847
• The living structure emerges, slowly, step by step, and as the process goes forward step by step there is continuous feedback which allows the process to guide the system towards greater wholeness, and coherence, and adaptation.quote0.844
  Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.
• If it is a living process, it will create beautiful geometric structure. If it does not create beautiful structure, it cannot truly be a living process.claim0.837
  Beauty and geometry are the talisman by which a living process is known.
• Nature always produces living structure because it follows a process of unfolding wholeness; human designers can create non-living structure by violating this process.claim0.833
  Core distinction between natural and designed configurations, explaining why properties are ubiquitous in nature but rare in bad design.
• Life and living structure will appear in the world inevitably because the mathematical way space gives rise to structure necessarily reinforces wholeness as part of its most normal evolution.claim0.830
  Alexander's strongest ontological claim: living structure is not probabilistically improbable but mathematically necessary given the principle of unfolding wholeness
• Living structure can only be created by structure-preserving transformations.claim0.824
  A strong normative claim from Book 2 recapitulated in the appendix as a verifiable and surprising conclusion.