
5 | Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There a Paradine for Other Problems?
There's networks all over the place. So other large mammals would need enormously more cloric input, absolutely to get through the day. But these networks solve the problem of, with maximum efficiency, getting of it on the abse Exactly. And indeed, somewhere along the line, a, it started to occur to me that, you know, this is a paradine for other problems. In particular, social organizations, and even more particular, cities Itis a, you knowd of course, there's been a long history of thinking of cities as a kind of superorganisms.
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