Title: The first life was.... fractal Post by: Tglad on May 11, 2011, 01:57:05 AM If you haven't seen this Attenborough documentary, it is excellent, here's the clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xux-uey6OEE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xux-uey6OEE) He talks about it a little more here (go to 7:45): http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/11/science-david-attenborough-richard-dawkins (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/11/science-david-attenborough-richard-dawkins) Title: Re: The first life was.... fractal Post by: Lee Oliver on May 11, 2011, 11:47:56 AM Thanks for the video link. It is quite interesting isn't it. :)
Title: Re: The first life was.... fractal Post by: Madman on May 11, 2011, 08:09:16 PM Nice one. Thanks!
Title: Re: The first life was.... fractal Post by: Prokofiev on November 19, 2011, 07:42:18 PM +1 !
Title: Re: The first life was.... fractal Post by: bib on November 20, 2011, 09:40:55 AM Thanks for the link. I have always thought that life is fractal by essence. DNA is the coding formula, and the meiosis is the iteration itself.
Title: Re: The first life was.... fractal Post by: Prokofiev on November 20, 2011, 11:48:35 AM That's right.
The complexity of multicellular life can arise from iterating one simple rule. You just need a simple and elementary DNA for that. Ideal in the context of the beginning of life. Simple rules, complex result we are in the heart of fractals. Title: Re: The first life was.... fractal Post by: jehovajah on November 20, 2011, 12:15:42 PM This shift in thinking is not only welcome, it is long overdue. My researches show that the Fractal nature of life is only the smallest part of it . When i start from his simple rule: everything is fractal under some iteration, i find that the whole universe is no longer random, or chaotic, and everything is connected at the deepest levels and at all scales. However, as exciting as this paradigm is , it is in fact most clearly expressed by Pythagorean Philosophy, albeit in idioms of the day. Rotation seems to be the fundamental iterator at all scales. |