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Scaling 2: You and I are fractals

Simplifying Complexity

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The Bigger You Are, the Less Stress You Put on Your Machine

It's that fractal like self similarity that allows us to get these essentially efficient savings in the amount of energy we need. So it's better to be bigger, isn't it? Because you don't need as much energy proportionally to run yourself. And by the way, this has huge consequences throughout all aspects of biology and life. This is the origin of why bigger things live longer than smaller things.

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