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Embryogenesis of a mouse foot demonstrates harmony-seeking through emergence of strong centers, boundaries, gradients, levels of scale, contrast, local symmetries, and good shape across four developmental days.

Example demonstrating how latent structures in development are progressively consolidated and solidified through structure-preserving transformations.

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Harmony-Seeking Computations: a Science of Non-Classical Dynamics based on the Progressive Evolution of the Larger Whole

(2022) · Alexander, Christopher

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Bioelectric morphogenesis & anatomical intelligence
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Levin-led research showing bioelectric signals encode and control anatomical goal states in living systems.
Geometric dynamics in embryonic morphogenesis
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Physical geometry and multi-scale collective cell behavior drive form emergence, studied through mouse limb development and Acetabularia whorl morphogenesis.
Mouse foot embryogenesis morphogenesis
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Four-day developmental sequence analyzed through Alexander's structural properties like centers and boundaries.

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Harmony-Seeking Computation
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A new form of computation that finds harmonious configurations by strengthening latent structures in a system while preserving the existing wholeness, applicable to buildings, towns, ecology, and natural systems.

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