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by silverc4t 688 days ago
> “Malcolm sat back in his seat. ‘And fractals…fractal patterns are everywhere in nature. Trees, clouds, shells, lightning. Everything in nature is fractal, in the sense that nothing can be broken down into simple shapes. In fact, I now think that animals, and perhaps especially large animals like the dinosaurs, are more efficient than we ever imagined. Their bulk allows them to utilize fractal designs in their biological systems, which means that larger animals have greater efficiency of scale than smaller ones.’”

I had a similar idea in university, when I was fascinated by fractal designs and graphics, that allows to generate complex and different structures with just an algorithm and a seed.

Jurrasic Park and the quote above helped too, because it played with the idea that the bigger a system is, the more efficient it is in nature, instead of less efficient, like an organization.

This paper kind of supports my idea that DNA is just a seed for our biological system to produce a specific output.