Written by a scientist for non-scientists, simplistic and jokey, makes you feel a bit talked-down-to. Nevertheless Wolf uses his imagination (or other scientists' imaginations) so well he seems to hit accidentally on certain truths — (unles…On the assumption that brain activity can be modelled as a "fractal universe", an outré topology interfacing with both random and determined forces, the twins' theorems showed that consciousness itself could be presented as a set of "strang…
Benoit Mandelbrot
mathematician · 3 mentions across 2 readings
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Mandelbrot's fractal geometry—the mathematical description of self-similar patterns across scales—appears in the course's theorization of consciousness and neural complexity, where his concepts of fractal topology and strange attractors are mobilized to model brain activity as operating between deterministic and chaotic forces. The readings invoke fractals as a conceptual bridge between classical computation and the messier, recursive logics that characterize both natural and artificial systems. His work enables the course to think about complexity and self-organization without reducing them to either pure randomness or pure order.
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