What it does require is an appreciation of the distinction, used by Pierre Levy, between the possible and the virtual. This distinction, put forth by philosopher Henri Bergson, is key to what I am articulating. The link between the possible and real is one of a model and its copy. The concept is complete in the model before being executed in the copy. Embryological development is just a rendering in reality of a correct copy of the model of the possible.
Monsters are failed copies.
By contrast, the link between the virtual and the actual is a link of differentiation. The fertilized egg encodes a virtuality that generates a range of self differentiating organs which actualize into a self organized fully formed human. The virtual does not make copies of itself but creates differences that make differences in the actual world. Failure of the virtual is the failure to create differences. Artists understand this distinction.