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My god, this little book store owner just blew my mind.

We were talking about self organizing systems and I brought up fractal development. He smiled and shook his head and told me that fractal patterns are merely the follow-through and not the initial mechanism. This dumbfounded me for about half an hour but I figured it out. He was going on about the golden ratio- but anyway. What he means to say is that fractal behavior is simply the echo of the initial mechanisms. The water molecule effects waters behavior which in then makes fractal river structure. It isn't where the buck stops, just the collective ripples. He gave me a name to look up and a resource.

Bialek @ fora.t.v.com

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