When centers are being created, a high proportion of them are locally symmetrical; living process is, in part, a process of creating local symmetries.

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• To be making centers, our simplest path is to be making symmetries; we always try to get the maximum feeling from the thing as we design it.claim0.843
• A living process is always natural, similar to the best kind of natural process, but it goes deeper and includes additional centers that naive natural process may miss.claim0.840
  Positions living process as an refined version of innate human creativity, not an artificial imposition.
• A living process always creates something unique at every point, respecting the uniqueness of every person and every place.claim0.835
• A living process only rarely creates living centers from scratch; it must use pre-established generic centers — patterns — encoding successful adaptationsclaim0.833
  Grounded in Holland's schemata theory and the biological gene analogy
• We cannot create living order only by concentrating on appearance; we must characterize the geometry that comes from living process.claim0.831
• The intricate and beautiful structure of living centers comes about naturally, and most of the time without effort, as a result of the repeated application of structure-preserving transformations to the wholeness which exists.claim0.831
  Central interpretive claim of the chapter, asserting that living structure is an effortless natural outcome of structure-preserving transformations.
• All living processes are governed by the emergence of a special recognizable geometry that shows feeling and life.claim0.830
• Living processes are by nature morphogenetic; they are aimed at creating positive space and making form coherent.claim0.829
  Core definition of living process as intentionally form-creating, in contrast to fragmented modern processes.