Geoffrey B. West: The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace
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The Evolution of Networks
One of the properties of these networks, by the way, is that they are fractal like they have a self-similar property to them. They look very similar at different scales. So for example, if you were to take the 10th branch of your circuitry system and increase it by 15%, your heart would have to work harder. And that's true for every part of your network. If we have sublinear behavior as we do in biology, the three quarters power law, then the pace of life slows down. It turns out the kinds of networks that social networks use has a different dynamic. That is a positive feedback loop,. In which case I talk to Stuart, he talks to
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