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• No principled limits to functionalization between living systems and inorganic machinery are known; hybrid functional systems can be constructed that are part living tissue and part smart electronics.claim0.754
  Strong claim that hybridization is unlimited in principle, making the life/machine binary conceptually untenable
• The material implementation and back-story of a given system are not sufficient information to reliably place it into a category of machine vs. living being.claim0.751
  Core ontological claim: composition and origin story are contingent, not essential, classifiers
• What materials and building techniques are needed for construction of buildings in a living world?question0.750
  The framing question of the entire chapter.
• "It is this substance which permits — OR DOES NOT PERMIT — the emergence of living centers in the material, and the adaptation of fine structure that is needed to bring the larger whole to life."quote0.749
  Alexander's foundational assertion connecting material substance directly to living structure.
• Awareness that living process will change our means of production entirely is only beginning to sink in.claim0.746
  Visionary statement about the transformative potential of adopting step-by-step process.
• Living things are not 20th-century machines, but may be 21st-century machines.claim0.743
  Core thesis: the machine metaphor requires updating, not abandoning, in light of modern machine behavior.
• Living structure might even be defined as 'that which pleases us'—that which truly pleases us.claim0.743
  A proposed operational definition of living structure in terms of genuine pleasure.
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.742