Structure-enhancing

The aspect of transformation that deepens and develops the whole by bringing latent centers to life.

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Chapter 9: **The Whole
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This chapter argues that every step in a living process must enhance the whole, using examples from drawing, zoning, St. Mark's Square, canyon design, and painting.

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

A structure-preserving transformation both preserves existing structure and enhances the whole by developing latent centers.claim0.792
Resolution of the apparent conflict between preserving and enhancing.
In any living process, the next step which is most structure-enhancing is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole.claim0.786
Center-enhancing transformationsconcept0.763
Transformations that repair damaged centers and create new living centers, following the fundamental process.
At every step, the process does its utmost to enhance the structure of the whole, and shapes its parts to make this enhancement happen.claim0.760
Central normative statement of the living process; defines the correct unfolding.
Structure Learningconcept0.759
Updating the structure of the generative model to better account for observations via Bayesian model reduction and expansion.
structure-preserving process (unfolding)concept0.756
The step-by-step method of making in which each act is consistent with and extends the existing wholeness; the core mechanism that generates living structure, described in Book 2.
What did traditional builders do to make their actions structure-enhancing?question0.756
Structural couplingconcept0.755
Maturana's concept of continuous dynamic interaction between an organism and its environment; key to understanding living cognition.