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Re:Christopher Alexander has died by Bieberfan2003 on Friday March 18, 2022 @06:24PM (#30728330)
Meh. The whole "wholeness" and "structure-preserving transformations" thing just sounded to me like he was describing a literal cell division algorithm. He even gave cell division as an example of structured behavior rules producing wholeness out of chaos.
Re:Christopher Alexander has died by ssivark on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:44PM (#30729617)
And is cell division any less magical for that comparison? We still don’t understand it well enough to build with anything close to the robustness & scalability of biological systems.