The 30-coin thought experiment shows the step-by-step approach works (about one minute) while the all-or-nothing approach does not (about 300 years), and this is the secret of biological evolution.

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• The step-by-step approach works. The all-or-nothing approach does not work. This is the secret of biological evolution.quote0.895
  Crisp conclusion from the 30-coin thought experiment, linking adaptation in buildings to evolution.
• If the evolution of the natural world follows a step-by-step process in which each step is structure-preserving, then the fifteen properties will appear more and more often, and the degree of life in the wholeness will increase steadily.hypothesis0.766
  Conditional statement linking smooth unfolding to the progressive emergence of the fifteen properties and increased life.
• When the process is correct, the creation of life follows almost automatically, without effort.claim0.761
• If welfare grows more slowly than cost with mind scale, greatest total welfare would be obtained by building vast numbers of tiny minds, implying insect populations may already overwhelm humans in aggregate welfarehypothesis0.754
  One of two scaling hypotheses examined for the mind-scale dimension
• 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.claim0.753
  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.claim0.752
  Claims that unfolding is not a stylistic choice but a biological requirement for adaptive buildings.
• 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.quote0.750
  Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.749
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.