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  1. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.
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  2. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    the pattern appears so ethereally, that it is hard to remember that the shape is an attractor. It is not just any trajectory of a dynamical system. It is the trajectory toward which all other trajectories converge.
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  3. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.
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  4. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    The fractal structure nature has devised works so efficiently that, in most tissue, no cell is ever more than three or four cells away from a blood vessel. Yet the vessels and blood take up little space, no more than about five percent of the body.
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  5. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    One simple but powerful consequence of the fractal geometry of surfaces is that surfaces in contact do not touch everywhere. The bumpiness at all scales prevents that. Even in rock under enormous pressure, at some sufficiently small scale it becomes clear that gaps remain, allowing fluid to flow.
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  6. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    IN THE MIND'S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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  7. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can't say what it's going to do next.
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  8. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    the brain does not own any direct copies of stuff in the world. There is no library of forms and ideas against which to compare the images of perception. Information is stored in a plastic way, allowing fantastic juxtapositions and leaps of imagination. Some chaos exists out there, and the brain seems to have more flexibility than classical physics in finding the order in it.
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  9. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.
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  10. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    Billions of years ago there were just blobs of protoplasm; now billions of years later here we are. So information has been created and stored in our structure. In the development of one person's mind from childhood, information is clearly not just accumulated but also generated-created from connections that were not there before
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  11. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few."
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  12. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it
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