>Nature itself is very much represented through fractals Not really. It's worth remembering that fractals are essentially a geometric concept, but are often c

>Nature itself is very much represented through fractals Not really. It's worth remembering that fractals are essentially a geometric concept, but are often conflated with the processes that produce them. For example, look at wiki "constructions" discussion of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpi%C5%84ski_triangle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpi%C5%84ski_triangle Here you can have the same set (i.e. "object") generated by geometric operations, by cellular automata, by the "chaos game". It's the same set. There are a number of naturally occurring features or object that show similar geometric properties to fractals which is why they are often talked about this way; but that doesn't mean that the mechanisms are the same. It also often used in very handwavy ways, when something shows similarity at different scales.