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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Scale Free Behaviour in Nature

Is it really true that there was nothing tuned in there or in it's not really understood? Let me give you an example of how you can fool yourself into ting t there was no tuning. So many years agomaybemaybe 20 or 30 years ago, a people yoare led bypback made models of sand piles. And what had happened was that, in making the models, people had neglected the inertia of the grains. This is scale free behaviour yr you are talking about. We know that we can easily fool ourselves into thinking that there is a self organization that really not theirs. Is just an artifactor.

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