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by jgrahamc 5722 days ago
He's not dead, he's just transformed into a similar form at a different level of zoom.
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"RIP Beniot Mandelbrot, fractal man. Assume he's survived by a number of smaller versions of himself." Eliot Reuben / @ereuben
Random thought: Every human is a fractal, and our age is our level of zoom.
That's so interesting. We are definitely self-similar, over and over in the course of our lives. If you could view a person 4-dimensionally (with time as the 4th), then the furthest level of zoom would be the person's entire life, replicating patterns at every instance. Zoom to any shorter time span and you would likely see something different but still similar. Could the narrowest level of zoom be a single thought in a single instance? That it itself probably has fractal-levels of complexity.
That reads like "Slaughterhouse five" by Vonnegut.