"the number of embryos emerging from the excitable medium of an embryonic blastoderm is not genetically fixed but determined in real-time by physiological processes"

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• The number of embryos emerging from an embryonic blastoderm is not genetically fixed but determined in real-time by physiological processes.claim0.928
  Highlights dynamical determination of individuality through collective autopoiesis.
• How many individuals are present in an embryonic blastoderm?question0.769
  Questions the fixed-ness of individuality and points to the dynamical determination of embryo count.
• Temporary introduction of breaks in the embryonic blastoderm results in twins, triplets, etc. (Lutz 1949)finding0.756
  Demonstrates that the blastoderm is a dynamical excitable medium where multiple coherent embryos can self-organize, not fixed by genetics.
• Embryonic Blastodermconcept0.752
  Dynamic excitable medium in which multiple coherent embryos self-organize; demonstrates that organism number is physiologically determined, not genetically fixed.
• Every living process resembles, in general terms, the process which underlies the unfolding of an embryo—morphogenesis.claim0.748
  Deep structural analogy that argues living process in architecture mirrors biological differentiation and division.
• In embryological development, chemistry and cell migrations are mechanisms that do the work but are simply not the principal thing going on — the fifteen properties and their unfolding are.claim0.747
  Alexander's interpretive priority claim distinguishing mechanistic substrate from the morphogenetic principle at work
• Xenopus embryos scale body pattern to available cell number (Cooke 1979, 1981).finding0.744
  Classic example of regulative development adjusting to cell count.
• How many human Selves can be sustained by the excitable medium of a human brain?question0.741
  Parallels the embryonic blastoderm question to the human brain, linking developmental and cognitive science.