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method:experimental-process-of-judging-structure-preserving-transformationsExperimental process of judging structure-preserving transformations
A method described in chapter 2 of Vol 2, used to evaluate whether a proposed action enhances or damages the existing wholeness.
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- Always Making CentersmentionsChapter 10 of The Nature of Order, Vol 2, describing the process of creating living centers through differentiation and the fundamental process.
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- Chapter 2 of Volume 2 of The Nature of Order, introducing structure-preserving transformations as the mechanism by which living structure arises naturally through unfolding wholeness.
- The process of getting the ornament from the space works by structure-preserving transformationsclaim0.817The design of the floor, color, and geometry all arose as a result of structure-enhancing transformations in the place.
- The step-by-step method of making in which each act is consistent with and extends the existing wholeness; the core mechanism that generates living structure, described in Book 2.
- Assertion that faithfully following the process produces novelty, not mere conservation.
- Structure-preserving transformations govern the emergence of all structure in nature, not just in buildings and art.hypothesis0.799Alexander's conjecture extending the unfolding framework from architecture to natural phenomena generally.
- Claim that the same process that creates natural living structure also underlies human artistic and architectural creativity.
- Transformations that break the wholeness, creating jaggedness and preventing life; cannot reach the descendants of nothingness.