Sublime

Sociologists measure power and influence in terms of the structural positions of agents (nodes) in complex networks.

This remarkable result leads to the surprising conclusion that, in a coarse-grained sense, a large war is just a scaled-up version of a small conflict, analogous to the way that elephants are approximately scaled-up mice.

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Kleiber’s law proved that as life gets bigger, it slows down. But West’s model demonstrated one crucial way in which human-built cities broke from the patterns of biological life: as cities get bigger, they generate ideas at a faster clip. This is what we call “superlinear scaling”: if creativity scaled with size in a straight, linear fashion, you

It is important to recognize that the three postulates enunciated above are to be understood in a coarse-grained average sense.

We should develop a mathematics to describe and use them, but we should not be too concerned about the underlying principles for how they are generated.

To maintain order and structure in an evolving system requires the continual supply and use of energy whose by-product is disorder.

the fractal dimension

Addressing such seemingly innocuous questions concerning how systems respond to a change in their size has had remarkably profound consequences across the entire spectrum of science, engineering, and technology and has affected almost every aspect of our lives.