Structure-preserving transformations govern the emergence of all structure in nature, not just in buildings and art.

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

• A structure-preserving transformation both preserves existing structure and enhances the whole by developing latent centers.claim0.879
  Resolution of the apparent conflict between preserving and enhancing.
• Structure-preserving transformations are the secret of all artistic and constructive human-inspired acts of creation.claim0.876
  Claim that the same process that creates natural living structure also underlies human artistic and architectural creativity.
• Living structure can only be created by structure-preserving transformations.claim0.872
  A strong normative claim from Book 2 recapitulated in the appendix as a verifiable and surprising conclusion.
• Structure-preserving transformations always yield surprising, unexpected results.claim0.853
  Assertion that faithfully following the process produces novelty, not mere conservation.
• Any part of the world we build will have life if it is created by structure-preserving transformations, and will not have life if it is not created by structure-preserving transformations.claim0.852
  The central thesis of the chapter.
• Nature manages to create structures that are members of C_living by way of structure-preserving transformations.claim0.849
• Even death and destruction in nature are structure-preserving because they preserve and extend the whole, unlike human image-driven processes.claim0.847
  Distinction between natural and human destruction.
• The fifteen structure-preserving transformations conserve existing structure and also create entirely new coherent wholes.claim0.847
  Explains the seeming paradox that living process respects what is there yet generates novelty, without arbitrary insertion.