All that is required is that this mechanical procedure is sensitive to the whole and is influenced by and guided by the structure of the whole. That is the secret of morphological emergence in natural phenomena.

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• At every step, the process does its utmost to enhance the structure of the whole, and shapes its parts to make this enhancement happen.claim0.809
  Central normative statement of the living process; defines the correct unfolding.
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.803
  Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem
• The intricate and context-specific adaptation that shapes every detail differently is a necessary structural feature of all life.claim0.803
  Foundational claim about the necessity of adaptation for life in structures.
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.802
  Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
• Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.802
• If the evolution of the natural world follows a step-by-step process in which each step is structure-preserving, then the fifteen properties will appear more and more often, and the degree of life in the wholeness will increase steadily.hypothesis0.797
  Conditional statement linking smooth unfolding to the progressive emergence of the fifteen properties and increased life.
• If the builder consistently uses the emerging feeling of the whole as the origin of his insight, then this is tantamount to a natural process of structure-preserving unfolding.hypothesis0.795
• Every living process resembles, in general terms, the process which underlies the unfolding of an embryo—morphogenesis.claim0.794
  Deep structural analogy that argues living process in architecture mirrors biological differentiation and division.