Why do 'large' or 'fat' boundaries appear repeatedly in different kinds of systems?

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• There appears to be a systematic relationship between the frequency of concepts and the dictionary size needed to resolve features for them.claim0.768
  Feature presence depends on concept frequency in training data, with a threshold scaling inversely with alive features.
• Echoes of similar proportions and angles appear throughout any natural system due to uniform underlying processes, giving a consistent character to different parts.claim0.764
• Levels of scale appear pervasively in natural systems such as trees, cells, rivers, mountain ranges, and galaxies.claim0.757
• The appearance of distinct levels of mass and scale must happen inevitably in a living process as one develops the building structure.claim0.752
  Claims inevitability of scale differentiation in living structural development
• Levels of scale is not a mechanical thing requiring merely a wide range of sizes; it arises properly only when each center gives life to the next one and the detail actually does something to create life in larger centersclaim0.750
  Clarification that levels of scale fails when detail is merely present but not doing anything—as in machine-made doors with superficially many panels that have no real life
• Individual mechanical explanations for each property are too specific to provide a general explanation for why living structure repeatedly appears across all domains.claim0.746
  Alexander's argument that case-by-case mechanical explanations fail to address the universal recurrence of living structure
• Why, and how, does living structure keep recurring in these widely different domains?question0.736
  The central motivating question of the chapter, driving Alexander's proposal of the principle of unfolding wholeness
• Big buildings overwhelm us not because of size but because the LEVELS OF SCALE are missing; in nature, they always preserve scale in relation to us.claim0.732
  Interpretation that the absence of hierarchical scaling is the reason modern buildings feel inhuman.