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If indeed the programs are so complex, then it is likely that they, too, will be potentially subject to hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of egregious mistakes of adaptation.

Extends the mistake analysis from buildings to software, predicting that complex programs without generating processes will be full of adaptation failures.

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mistakes of adaptation
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Geometrical or functional failures where a decision does not fit harmoniously with the whole; each decision point in a fabricated object is likely a mistake.

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How then — realistically — in the modern world can we get the subtle fine detail of adaptation, variation, and harmony which makes every component slightly different, and yet do it at the break-neck speed of modern giant projects and in the colossal quantities required for the largest projects?question0.787
The central practical question the chapter sets out to answer.
Rules are wrongly formulated and processes are too rigid to allow adaptation; they cannot allow life to occur.claim0.785
General statement that current rules and processes are fundamentally incompatible with living structure.
Our present forms of planning, design, construction, and production are deeply flawed because they do not include step-by-step adaptation and cannot in principle do so as they are.claim0.777
Sweeping indictment of current production systems.
The adaptation must be specific, not a stochastic trick in which random variation creates an illusion of variety.claim0.776
Distinguishes genuine context-driven adaptation from mere statistical randomness.
The adaptation must be specific. We are not talking about a stochastic trick in which random variation creates an illusion of variety and repetition.quote0.773
Key distinction between genuine living structure and pseudo-random variation.
Evolution and adaptation may be as inevitable as simple self-organization.claim0.771
Speculation that descent onto a global random attractor implies evolutionary free energy minimization.
The sketches show precisely the kinds of forms which must in all likelihood follow from any program in which these fifteen transformations are progressively unfolded.claim0.764
Asserts that the chapter's sketches represent the necessary geometric character of unfolded buildings.
Truly successful programs can only be generated; and the way forward in the next decades will be through programs which are generated through unfolding, in some fashion comparable to what I have described for buildings.hypothesis0.762
Predicts that the only path to highly adapted software is to apply the principles of generated structure.