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claim:our-new-or-revised-living-processes-were-too-large-to-be-widely-copied-because-they-required-too-much-change-and-were-indivisible

Our new or revised living processes were too 'large' to be widely copied because they required too much change and were indivisible.

Diagnosis of why Alexander's earlier full-process experiments did not spread despite success.

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Processes compatible with current professional norms spread more easily than deeply living transformative ones.
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Inferred from the co-housing vs. Alexander's own housing process contrast.

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Living processes are necessarily generative: large precedes small, and the whole creates the conditions for the part.claim0.808
Piecemeal modification of society along simple lines will not be powerful enough to work because the life-destroying process is too massive and thoroughly organized.hypothesis0.804
Predicts that gradual improvement of individual processes cannot overcome the systemic resistance of the whole.
A living process always creates something unique at every point, respecting the uniqueness of every person and every place.claim0.803
A living process only rarely creates living centers from scratch; it must use pre-established generic centers — patterns — encoding successful adaptationsclaim0.798
Grounded in Holland's schemata theory and the biological gene analogy
Awareness that living process will change our means of production entirely is only beginning to sink in.claim0.795
Visionary statement about the transformative potential of adopting step-by-step process.
Living process respects the uniqueness of every place and the particularity of the people there, making the environment lovable and establishing belonging.claim0.794
Synthesis of how adaptation in living process creates emotional attachment.
Rules are wrongly formulated and processes are too rigid to allow adaptation; they cannot allow life to occur.claim0.791
General statement that current rules and processes are fundamentally incompatible with living structure.
A living process is always natural, similar to the best kind of natural process, but it goes deeper and includes additional centers that naive natural process may miss.claim0.790
Positions living process as an refined version of innate human creativity, not an artificial imposition.