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I'd be cautious about the word "fractal" misleading us into looking for a scale-spanning pattern that dictates both large and small details simultaneously. Som
by Terr_ 2y ago
I'd be cautious about the word "fractal" misleading us into looking for a scale-spanning pattern that dictates both large and small details simultaneously.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and fine features occur for different reasons than coarse features.
- andrewflnr 2y ago> fine features occur for different reasons than coarse features Important point. This makes reality even less tractable than a fractal, by a solid margin!
- wruza 2y agohttps://youtube.com/watch?v=gB9n2gHsHN4 https://youtube.com/watch?v=gB9n2gHsHN4 (3B1B: Fractals are typically not self-similar)
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- Terr_ 2y agoMy point isn't about outcome similarity, but shared causation. All possible different-looking snapshots of a Mandelbrot fractal may look extremely very different, but they come from the same mathematical cause. In contrast, the jagged molecules of my wood tabletop come from the nature of organic polymers and how biological systems are able to manufacture them, while the smooth scale of my tabletop comes because I made it that way with a belt sander.