"We believe a gene—or perhaps the whole chromosome fibre—to be an aperiodic solid."

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

• Aperiodic structure of genetic molecules enables exponential diversity of encodable information compared to periodic crystals.claim0.807
  Schrödinger argues that non-repeating molecular structure (aperiodic solid) allows information density far exceeding periodic/crystalline alternatives.
• The number of atoms involved in the responsible gene structure is likely to be very small, yet it displays a most regular and lawful activity with a durability that borders upon the miraculous, remaining unperturbed by the disordering tendency of heat motion for centuries.claim0.783
  Schrödinger's statement of the puzzle that quantum mechanics resolves.
• How can we, from the point of view of statistical physics, reconcile the facts that the gene structure seems to involve only a comparatively small number of atoms and nevertheless displays a most regular and lawful activity with a durability that borders upon the miraculous?question0.765
  The specific puzzle about the stability of the genetic material.
• "It is this substance which permits — OR DOES NOT PERMIT — the emergence of living centers in the material, and the adaptation of fine structure that is needed to bring the larger whole to life."quote0.759
  Alexander's foundational assertion connecting material substance directly to living structure.
• The genome contains a latent wholeness — capable of generating the wholeness of the organism — which itself evolves through structure-preserving transformations analogous to direct wholeness unfolding.claim0.757
  Alexander's extension of unfolding wholeness to evolutionary processes where the evolving entity is the genetic structure rather than the organism's form directly
• The hereditary substance is a single huge aperiodic molecule capable of discrete configuration changes (mutations) via quantum jumps.hypothesis0.757
  Schrödinger's central hypothesis, later confirmed by discovery of DNA structure.
• The deep nature of space appears to be so profound that just the geometric unfolding, when done properly, leads to results which make sense from an engineering point of view.claim0.747
  The mystery that beautiful geometry often yields good structural behavior is acknowledged but not yet fully explained mathematically.
• Each human is a collective intelligence; the parenthetical 'of neurons' can be dropped as a conceptual commitment.claim0.743