There is no need for emphasis on individual creative personality as a source of life; the process itself fosters wholeness and life.

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• Creativity is not inserting entirely new structure but revealing what is already there, serving the wholeness.claim0.810
  Reconception of creativity as attentive revelation rather than arbitrary invention.
• The success of mystical tradition in creating life has a practical explanation: it helped the artist dissolve his images, constructs, and concepts, and focus on reality as it is—the structure of wholeness—enabling structure‑preserving steps.claim0.798
  A mechanistic bridge between religious devotion and the process of Book 2; belief in God operated as a cognitive tool to see wholeness.
• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.792
• Creativity comes about when we discover the new within a structure already latent in the present.quote0.781
  Alexander's definition of genuine creativity, opposing arbitrary image-making.
• When the process is correct, the creation of life follows almost automatically, without effort.claim0.780
• People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.claim0.779
• H1: Individuality requires a dynamical process (development), mediating the plastic expression of components in the context of one another, with the specific form of computing a collective character that is a non-linearly separable function of (embryonic) particle characters, with the effect of coordinating reproduction based on this collective character.hypothesis0.778
  Main hypothesis about the architecture of individuality
• If the conception of life is completely general (degree of life in everything), it will be much easier to design buildings, towns, and regions that are alive.hypothesis0.777
  Pragmatic motivation for the entire book: a broader definition enables effective creation of life.