Arthur Clarke - Fractals - The Colors Of Infinity 4 of 6

Why a connection between specifically the mandelbrot set and the way nature operates?

The mandelbrot set is only one way to achieve a fractal design of infinite complexity with infinitely diverging shapes and all their possible combinations. There are also uncountable other ways to make fractals which have the same qualities.

Nature may use more then just mandelbrot, or may use entirely different fractal processes.

Sure there are different ways (calculations) of creating fractals, but the mandelbrot set uses the simplest math to achieve the "simplest" shape.

ok what exactly is the set???? is it the cell of a plant?? is it a math formula?? is it what makes up nutrons and protons??? idk how its significant.

The guy with curly grey hair, big glasses and plants behind him looks like Will Ferrell.

we are fractal,because we reproduce.

They are right about fractals being used for commercial purposes. I'd say most of you have fractals in their pockets - cellphone antennae are fractals, allowing a single antenna to be used for GSM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc.

Why are we assuming that when we zoom in on a set, that we are seeing smaller and smaller sets? Could we not be just looking farther and farther away?

It's a mathematically steered visual - it doesn't actually have size or distance. But this is also true of the perceived world - the mind creates objects, but direct experience is fundamentally boundless.

A few questions...

1) What is your source for this information?
2) What is that source's agenda?
3) Do you subscribe to that kind of conspiratorial thinking often?

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