Poincaré's pear-shaped blob theory of planetary moon formation is now known to be factually incorrect, though its sequence illustrates the characteristic morphology of unfolding processes.

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• "Newton didn't invent two terms—gravity (for terrestrial objects falling) and perhaps shmavity (for the moon)—because it would have lost out on the much more powerful unification."concept0.762
  Analogy supporting TAME as unifying framework, contrasting fragmented categorical thinking with powerful conceptual consolidation.
• It is impossible, in principle, for an unfolding process to produce the works of Botta, Mies, or Le Corbusier; their works are therefore arbitrary and lifeless.claim0.743
  Strong in-principle claim against modern icons.
• 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.claim0.737
  The mystery that beautiful geometry often yields good structural behavior is acknowledged but not yet fully explained mathematically.
• "biological morphogenesis is not well-described by bottom-up, open-loop, mechanical models, but instead exhibits more complex policies as it navigates the space of possible anatomical shapes despite various perturbations"concept0.732
• We hypothesize that a similar 'brutal' and purely geometric process always occurs somewhere in other kinds of unfolding that generate living order — in poetry, dance, social structure, planning, and family relationships.hypothesis0.732
  Extends the brutal geometry thesis beyond architecture into all creative and social domains; acknowledged as not yet confirmed with certainty
• Morphogenesis guarantees that coherent wholes will form even while the piecemeal process allows each place to be unique.claim0.730
  Key property of morphogenetic process: it produces both unity and diversity simultaneously.
• Contrast organizes natural systems from elementary particles to day/night cycles, and Spencer Brown's Laws of Form suggest it is fundamental to all structure.claim0.729
• Coleman's use of mechanical indicators (urine in passages) to prove what was directly observable as feeling was a conjuring trick required by the illegitimacy of phenomenological evidence in 1985 scienceclaim0.723
  Alexander's critical interpretation of Coleman's methodological choices as forced by Cartesian epistemological constraints