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Scaling 2: You and I are fractals

Simplifying Complexity

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The Invariance of Terminal Units in the Biosphere

Natural selection doesn't invent the fundamental units. It has these building blocks and you build on that. The idea of optimization permeates all of physics. That meant I could put this whole structure, these ideas, optimization, space filling, network has to go everywhere. And so it is across the biosphere,. they don't change with size.

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