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- This chapter argues that the fifteen properties appear ubiquitously in natural systems, supporting the thesis that living structure is a fundamental property of nature, not just artifacts.
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- The property that living wholes have a geometrical simplicity and purity with a certain slowness, majesty, and quietness; everything unnecessary is removed—all centers not actively supporting other centers are stripped out
- One of the fifteen transformations; the practical equivalent of Occam's razor, removing everything not required.
- Claim that the wild Norwegian dragon carving has inner calm despite complexity, because everything essential has been left and nothing extraneous remains—distinguishing inner from outer simplicity
- Central thesis of the paper unifying cognitive phenomena under one objective function
- Alexander's characterization of what makes his principle novel relative to least-action formulations
- Remarkable convergence result showing optimal modelling erodes the distinction the modeller imposed
- Foundational claim unifying action and perception within single optimization framework.
- Differentiation of the thesis from Friston's FEP to avoid the rock problem