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.

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• Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.870
• 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.claim0.866
  Definition of the essential mechanism of living structure formation.
• 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.quote0.849
  Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.
• Possibly the most basic and necessary feature of any living process is the fact that it goes gradually.claim0.831
  Core thesis of the chapter: gradual, step-by-step progression is the bedrock of life.
• A living process only rarely creates living centers from scratch; it must use pre-established generic centers — patterns — encoding successful adaptationsclaim0.828
  Grounded in Holland's schemata theory and the biological gene analogy
• At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.827
  Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
• 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.hypothesis0.826
  Conditional statement linking smooth unfolding to the progressive emergence of the fifteen properties and increased life.
• The fundamental differentiating process is the one general underlying step which is the building block of every process capable of generating life.claim0.825
  Positions the 11-step method as the atomic unit of all life-creation, from buildings to meadows to organisms.