The step-by-step approach works. The all-or-nothing approach does not work. This is the secret of biological evolution.

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• The 30-coin thought experiment shows the step-by-step approach works (about one minute) while the all-or-nothing approach does not (about 300 years), and this is the secret of biological evolution.claim0.895
  Mathematical argument that adaptation without stepwise process is statistically impossible.
• all-or-nothing approachconcept0.824
  Setting all variables simultaneously, making adaptation statistically impossible—illustrated by tossing 30 coins at once.
• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.797
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• The step-by-step evolution of living centers, in a progressive differentiating process, is a biological necessity — an essential part of the adaptation of a complex system.claim0.790
  Claims that unfolding is not a stylistic choice but a biological requirement for adaptive buildings.
• 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.hypothesis0.786
  Conditional statement linking smooth unfolding to the progressive emergence of the fifteen properties and increased life.
• 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.quote0.783
  Load-bearing statement asserting that sensitivity to the whole is the essential requirement for generating novel living structure.
• To get a fully adapted world, the same step-by-step principle must be extended to cover all scales, even things a million times bigger than a doorstep.claim0.782
  Scalability claim: the principle applies to the largest constructions.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.781
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.