The living organism seems to be a macroscopic system which in part of its behaviour approaches that purely mechanical (as contrasted with thermodynamical) conduct to which all systems tend as the temperature approaches absolute zero.

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• Living system as individual organismconcept0.812
  The basis of the standard biological definition of life, centered on the individual organism.
• Living processes are by nature morphogenetic; they are aimed at creating positive space and making form coherent.claim0.812
  Core definition of living process as intentionally form-creating, in contrast to fragmented modern processes.
• The living process must give rise to coherent entities at a middle range of scale.claim0.811
  Asserts middle-range entity emergence as a necessary output of any living process
• Every living process is, throughout its length and breadth, congruent with feeling and governed by feeling.claim0.809
  Essential feature of living process, making phenomenological experience the central criterion for evaluation.
• We feel degrees of life in different organisms, even though technically they all have equal biological life.claim0.808
  Summarizes the observation of graded life within the category of living things.
• 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.quote0.807
  Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.
• The wave itself — the system which in present-day science we have considered as a purely mechanical hydrodynamical system of moving water — has some degree of life.concept0.804
  Alexander's definition of 'life' in broad sense, exemplifying how non-biological systems possess vitality.
• Living structure is at once structural and personal, uniting objective and subjective and potentially bridging the bifurcation of nature described by Whitehead.claim0.801
  From the concluding Part Two interlude, asserting a synthesis of science and feeling.