Structural difference underlying life

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• structural features contributing to lifeconcept0.806
  Attributes such as light, detail, harmony, adaptation that appear to correlate with higher perceived life.
• Can we find any structural features which tend to be present in the examples which have more life, and tend to be missing in the ones which have less life?question0.770
  The research question that drove the twenty-year empirical study and resulted in the fifteen properties
• The difference in degree of life is inherent in the thing itself, not just a personal value judgment.claim0.766
  Ontological claim that the life quality resides in the object, not the observer.
• The structures where life occurs just cannot be made in any other way.quote0.765
  Categorical assertion about the necessity of the living process.
• The intricate and context-specific adaptation that shapes every detail differently is a necessary structural feature of all life.claim0.758
  Foundational claim about the necessity of adaptation for life in structures.
• Life is structural, a quality that comes about because of the existence of a discernible structure in the wholeness.claim0.755
  The central thesis of the chapter, setting up the explanation of how life emerges.
• There is nothing except the living structure of the world, and this living structure is all we need to reason with.claim0.753
  Radical assertion that function reduces to living structure, eliminating the need for external goals.
• structural realismconcept0.747
  A philosophical position that only the structure of relations is knowable; invoked to support continued self-evidencing.