Certain kinds of information structures actively facilitate their own transformation and remapping, exhibiting minimal agency.

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

• The structure which is created by a feeling for centers and by a conscious and deliberate aim towards the feeling of the whole, will often turn out to be an efficient structure.claim0.788
  Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.
• The images or schemata that guide actions may be wholeness preserving or not, and modern architects often paid no attention to existing wholeness.claim0.786
  Moral evaluation of modern architecture.
• We propose that many, and maybe even all, interesting organisations of information and behaviour might be built from a single primitive operation: n-way associative lookup.claim0.784
  The central thesis of the paper, that associative lookup is a universal building block for dynamic system semantics.
• The collective often displays new behaviors or preferences that are not simply the sum of individual cell behaviors.claim0.781
  Key property of collective intelligence: emergent behaviors at the group level.
• A structure-preserving transformation both preserves existing structure and enhances the whole by developing latent centers.claim0.779
  Resolution of the apparent conflict between preserving and enhancing.
• At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.778
  Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
• Every wholeness carries a latent structure that we must feel to perform structure-preserving transformations.claim0.777
• In buildings, especially, the success of the process will be judged by the extent to which these middle-range entities appear with their own distinct symmetries, with their own definite and distinct force as strong centers.claim0.776
  Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process