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quote:the-genome-contains-instead-a-program-of-instructions-for-making-the-organism-a-generative-programThe genome contains instead a program of instructions for making the organism — a generative program.
Wolpert's core distinction, quoted by Alexander to support the generative approach to architecture.
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- The chapter from which this knowledge graph is extracted, presenting examples of living processes in the 20th century.
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- An extension of the genetic code concept: it encodes developmental and behavioural control, not just static form.
- Alexander's extension of unfolding wholeness to evolutionary processes where the evolving entity is the genetic structure rather than the organism's form directly
- Claim linking the indirect genotype-phenotype mapping to robustness and open-endedness.
- Another key sentence from Wolpert's Principles of Development, explicating the two types of programs.