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concept:structural-integrityStructural integrity
The maintenance of the configuration and boundaries of a self-organized system.
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- Life as we know itmentions
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- Fred Brooks's notion of coherence in design, with criteria orthogonality, propriety, generality.
- A philosophical position that only the structure of relations is knowable; invoked to support continued self-evidencing.
- Flusser’s category of complexity where the system elements have very complex internal relationships (like apparatus).
- The columns, walls, beams, and vaults that form the geometric underpinning of a building; the fountain of geometrical order in living building processes
- Maturana's concept of continuous dynamic interaction between an organism and its environment; key to understanding living cognition.
- The claim that the felt degree of life correlates with an objective, measurable structural property in the thing itself.
- Dominant interpretation of generative models as neural structures with representational content; main target of critique
- Chapter 2 of Volume 2 of The Nature of Order, introducing structure-preserving transformations as the mechanism by which living structure arises naturally through unfolding wholeness.