Nature of Order
Christopher Alexander

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vol 4

321
"if this hidden structure of symmetries, latent in space, guides and shapes events in a foreseeable way, then it will be quite natural to say that the unfolding of the system is guided by wholeness, because this will be a mathematical consequence of the system of structures."

Q.  But this is already present in ... gauge theory?
and spinors, and more generally non-commutative geometry?

325
Time asymmetry: structure-preserving transformations as the origin of the laws of physics and biology.

vol 4 p. 325-326 “principle of unfolding wholeness (Book 2, chapter 1).... the next step after a given configuration will be the one which does the most to preserve and extend the structure (structure being defined by the wholeness).”

Yes, and at this level of generality it would be hard to disagree.