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Scaling 2: You and I are fractals

Simplifying Complexity

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What Is Heart Rate Times Lifespan?

Jeffrey Toobin: Heart rate times lifespan is the number of heartbeats in a lifetime. He says it's intuitively obvious that if you have a small heart, beating at fifteen hundred times a minute, that heart will not survive as long. And so it is with your cells,. So there it is. You can derive it from these fundamental equations built on this network theory, and you can predict what that number is - about one and a half billion heartbeats. That's why to go back to your, even earlier question, we live a hundred years.Toobin: Why a hundred years? Our natural lifespan is about 40 to 50 years for a human being.

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