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Fractal Quotes

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Alejandro Mos Riera
“Every unique thing in nature is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

In geometric harmony of the cosmos there are ways that resemble, there are universal patterns, from blood vessels, to winter trees or to a river delta, from nautilus shell to spiral galaxy, from neurons in the brain to the cosmic web.

A whole universe of connections is in your mind – a universe within a universe – and one capable of reaching out to the other that gave rise to it. Billions of neurons touching billions of stars – surely spiritual.”
Alejandro Mos Riera

“How can unity and infinity share the same space?
There is only one way, as a fractal.”
R.A. Delmonico

James Gleick
“Engineers had not framework for understanding Mandelbrot's description, but mathematicians did. In effect, Mandelbrot was duplicating an abstract construction known as the Cantor set, after the nineteenth-century mathematician Georg Cantor. To make a Cantor set, you start with the interval of numbers from zero to one, represented by a line segment. Then you remove the middle third. That leaves two segments, and you remove the middle third of each (from one-ninth to two-ninths and from seven-ninths to eight-ninths). That leaves four segments, and you remove the middle third of each- and so on to infinity. What remains? A strange "dust" of points, arranged in clusters, infinitely many yet infinitely sparse. Mandelbrot was thinking of transmission errors as a Cantor set arranged in time.”
James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

“There is only one miracle but it is a fractal.”
R.A.Delmonico

Douglas Rushkoff
“Meanwhile, people are busy using fractals to explain any system that has defied other, more reductionist approaches. Since they were successfully applied by IBM's Benoit Mandlebrot to the problem of seemingly random, intermittent interference on the phone lines, fractals have been used to identify underlying patterns in weather systems, computer files, and bacteria cultures. Sometimes fractal enthusiasts go a bit too far, however, using these nonlinear equations to mine for patterns in systems where none exist. Applied to the stock market to consumer behavior, fractals may tell less about those systems than about the people searching for patterns within them.

There is a dual nature to fractals: They orient us while at the same time challenging our sense of scale and appropriateness. They offer us access to the underlying patterns of complex systems while at the same time tempting us to look for patterns where none exist. This makes them a terrific icon for the sort of pattern recognition associated with present shock—a syndrome we'll call factalnoia. Like the robots on Mystery Science Theater 3000, we engage by relating one thing to another, even when the relationship is forced or imagined. The tsunami makes sense once it is connected to chemtrails, which make sense when they are connected to HAARP.

It's not just conspiracy theorists drawing fractalnoid connections between things. In a world without time, any and all sense making must occur on the fly. Simultaneity often seems like all we have. That's why anyone contending with present shock will have a propensity to make connections between things happening in the same moment—as if there had to be an underlying logic.”
Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

“Everything is fields, and a particle is just a smaller version of a field.
There is a harmonic relationship involved.

Disturbing ideas like those of Einstein in 1905 and Feynman Pocono Conference in 1948.
Here we go;
1) The universe is ringing like a bell. Neil Turok's Public Lecture: The Astonishing Simplicity of Everything.
2) The stuff of the universe is waves or fields.
3) Scale is relative, not fixed because all of these waves are ratios of one another.
4) The geometry is fractal. This could be physical or computational.
5) If the geometry is computational then, there is no point in speaking about the relationship of the pixels on the display.”
Rick Delmonico

“Freewill is fractal.”
R.A.Delmonico

Ujjwal Arora
“A Fractal is a like a mathematical shape that is infinitely complex. In simple terms, it is a pattern that repeats forever. Every part of it, regardless of how it’s zoomed, in or out its parts look similar to the whole.”
Ujjwal Arora, Healing Sole to Soul

Massimo Pigliucci
“…the boundaries separating science, nonscience, and pseudoscience are much fuzzier and more permeable than Popper (or, for that matter, most scientists) would have us believe. There is, in other words, no litmus test.”
Massimo Pigliucci, Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk