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framework:derived-construction-kitDerived Construction Kit
Sloman's concept: organism-specific or species-specific construction kits for development and control, layered atop fundamental kit.
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- Fundamental Construction Kitassociated_withSloman's framework extending Schrödinger: the minimal physical laws and structures required to support all biological derived construction kits.
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- Complex assemblies (e.g., organs, neural circuits) built using fundamental kits, enabling diverse biological forms and behaviors.
- The basic physical and chemical mechanisms (e.g., quantum stability) that enable the existence of derived construction kits in biology.
- Sloman's framework describing biological evolution and development as using fundamental and derived construction kits (FCK and DCK) to assemble complex mechanisms.
- Alexander's proposed approach using high technology to provide processes (not components) that create sophisticated elements cheaply while fitting local circumstance.
- Alexander's central thesis: architects must actively invent new materials and methods rather than passively assemble available components.
- The notion that human-made structures provide a framework, like a mollusc shell, within which nature can thrive.