Possibly the most basic and necessary feature of any living process is the fact that it goes gradually.

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• The drive to simplicity is perhaps the deepest feature of living process, and its most essential feature.claim0.850
  Summarizes the chapter's central thesis.
• 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.claim0.849
  Positions living process as an refined version of innate human creativity, not an artificial imposition.
• Living process may be characterized by the idea that it is the simplest process which exists in any given set of circumstances.claim0.846
  A core definitional claim about the nature of living process.
• Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.843
• The core of all living process is step-by-step adaptation — the modification and evolution which happen gradually in response to information about the degree to which the emerging structure supports the whole.claim0.835
  Definition of the essential mechanism of living structure formation.
• The step-by-step evolution of living centers, in a progressive differentiating process, is a biological necessity — an essential part of the adaptation of a complex system.claim0.831
  Claims that unfolding is not a stylistic choice but a biological requirement for adaptive buildings.
• Almost any social process can have a relatively more living character, or have a relatively less living character.claim0.827
• The entire living process is oriented by the simplicity transformation, and is pruned steadily to move towards beautiful simplicity.claim0.824
  Identifies the fifteenth transformation as the overarching aesthetic guide that shapes the process outcome.