The secret

15 structure-preserving transformations

* Create: generate coherence in the large
* Conserve: pull the future from the present
* guarantee appearance of orderly, larger wholes with beautiful internal geometry
* propagate beauty with enormous force, both locally and in the large

-> Differentiation


The fifteen structure-preserving transformations have the capacity to conserve and to create. They create, generate coherence in the large — and it is new coherence that they generate. Yet they are conservative and pull the future from the present.
Further, these fifteen transformations, though simple, guarantee the appearance of orderly, large and larger wholes with beautiful internal geometry. Instead of making aggregates of random structures, they propagate beauty with enormous force, both locally, and in the large.

#book/The Nature of Order/2 The process of creating life/7 The fundamental differentiating process#

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