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The option space of beings enables us truly to see life for the first time, in the absence of standard phylogenetic relationships.

Epistemological claim about the role of novel organisms.

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Endless forms most beautiful 2.0: teleonomy and the bioengineering of chimaeric and synthetic organisms

(2023) · Clawson, Wesley P. · Levin, Michael

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Causal emergence in biological systems
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Examines how macro-scale causal power exceeds micro-scale in living and learning systems.
Hierarchical emergence through nested centers and constraints
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Alexander's 15 properties framework applied to evolutionary transitions, self-organization, and morphological design across scales using constraint-based emergence mechanisms.

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Option space of beingsconcept0.816
The vast space of possible living forms beyond those evolved on Earth.
Life occurs in space not as an attribute of living organisms but as an attribute of space itselfclaim0.808
Radical ontological claim that life is a property of spatial configuration itself, not limited to biological organisms; the degree of life depends on the coherence of centers
The geometry of space plays an enormous role in the presence or absence of deep human life: centers in space either support or hinder the evolution of free life.claim0.807
Synthesis of geometry and life.
Life is exactly that property of space in which each spot becomes unique according to its place in the larger scheme of things.claim0.791
Definitional claim equating life with spatial uniqueness.
Life and living structure will appear in the world inevitably because the mathematical way space gives rise to structure necessarily reinforces wholeness as part of its most normal evolution.claim0.787
Alexander's strongest ontological claim: living structure is not probabilistically improbable but mathematically necessary given the principle of unfolding wholeness
Society must be described in terms of its intrinsic spatiality. Space must be described in terms of its intrinsic sociality.quote0.785
Key statement from Hillier and Hanson that encapsulates the inseparability of social function and spatial structure.
Evolution actually searches not only genotype space but a more tractable space of behavior-shaping signals that exploit cellular intelligence.claim0.785
Central thesis of the paper.
The life which appears is an attribute of space itself.claim0.783
The final distillation of the chapter's argument, making life a fundamental property of matter/space.

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What are the implications of embracing the space of possible beings for terminology, conceptual frameworks, research programmes and ethics?questions/what-are-the-implications-of-embracing-the-space.md0.796