Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.755

   So, I would read fractal here as a statement that there is some self-similarity that comes for free with this scale invariance that you get and literally it becomes scale-free in a network and that is exactly this sort of deep structure I was talking about. Okay. It is the fractal, the self-similar, the scale-invariant aspects of the organization of something, be it an institution or a person or possibly even a cell. I think that's a really important aspect of or feature which will determine the nature of your engagement with the world. Thank you. That's huge. So, for our listeners, at the mom…

   yt/e8R7KicFCSs-karl-friston-decodes-the-real-ooda-loop-active-inference-and/transcript.txt

2. 02 · yt0.738

   So, now you get a certain a certain a recursion and a self um a self um modeling um of you know, um greater or lesser sophistication, um which I think you could apply to multicellular organisms, but probably not cellular organisms. Why? >> Okay. Well, simply because the cellular the single cellular organism doesn't really have those nested Markov blankets on the inside. Now, some people might argue that mitochondria could constitute this, and there could be some sense in which the mitochondria uh are doing a planning. Uh you know, the cell a single cell cell will probably not have the ca…

   yt/e8R7KicFCSs-karl-friston-decodes-the-real-ooda-loop-active-inference-and/transcript.txt

3. 03 · blog0.736

   None of these processes occur in isolation and explanations of particular form features usually draw on several of them simultaneously, presuming other features that originated earlier in ontogeny by different instantiations and combinations of the processes. This sets a broad agenda for investigation: how do various iterations and combinations of these processes generate form features during ontogeny? Consider the concrete example of vertebrate cardiogenesis. How does the vertebrate heart, with its internal and external shape and structure originate during ontogeny (Harvey 2002)? How does the…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/developmental-biology.md

4. 04 · blog0.732

   The metaphor comparing cell formation to crystal formation played a yet larger role when Schwann confronted the challenge that animal cells differ vastly in their appearance. Schwann argued that they were nonetheless all cells since they all formed through a process analogous to crystal formation: The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it may be asserted that there is one universal principle of development for the elementary parts of organisms, however different, and that this principle is the formation of cells. (Schwan…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/philosophy-of-cell-biology.md

5. 05 · pubmed0.725

   A theory for the evolution of cellular organization is presented. The model is based on the (data supported) conjecture that the dynamic of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is primarily determined by the organization of the recipient cell. Aboriginal cell designs are taken to be simple and loosely organized enough that all cellular componentry can be altered and/or displaced through HGT, making HGT the principal driving force in early cellular evolution. Primitive cells did not carry a stable organismal genealogical trace. Primitive cellular evolution is basically communal. The high level of nov…

   pubmed/PMID-12077305-on-the-evolution-of-cells/info.md

6. 06 · blog0.724

   Complexity is not built in from the beginning, but emerges over time, dynamically, and interactively. A cytologist himself, Hertwig saw the intricate structures already part of the unfertilized egg, and the changes that occur with fertilization. The egg is not a completely unstructured blob, but rather a complex of different materials that can respond to influences both within the egg and from the external environment. Cells behave like small organisms, and it is the interactions of these separate organisms that makes the whole. As Hertwig put it: I shall explain the gradual, progressive organ…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/theories-of-biological-development.md

7. 07 · pubmed0.723

   Connection patterns of the cerebral cortex consist of pathways linking neuronal populations across multiple levels of scale, from whole brain regions to local minicolumns. This nested interconnectivity suggests the hypothesis that cortical connections are arranged in fractal or self-similar patterns. We describe a simple procedure to generate fractal connection patterns that aim at capturing the potential self-similarity and hierarchical ordering of neuronal connections. We examine these connection patterns by calculating a broad range of structural measures, including small-world attributes a…

   pubmed/PMID-16757100-small-world-connectivity-motif-composition-and-complexity-of/info.md

8. 08 · blog0.723

   Thus, an explanation of the ontogeny of these form features requires accounting for how the interactions occur and yield integrated outcomes. Proponents of preformation claimed that complex form preexists in the embryo and “unfolds” via ordinary growth processes. An adequate explanation involves detailing how growth occurs. Although preformation has a lighter explanatory burden in accounting for how form emerges during ontogeny (on the assumption that growth is easier to explain than interactions among processes), it also must address how the starting point of the next generation is formed wit…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/developmental-biology.md

9. 09 · pubmed0.722

   Fluctuations in ecological systems are known to involve a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, often displaying self-similar (fractal) properties. Recent theoretical approaches are trying to shed light on the nature of these complex dynamics. The results suggest that complexity in ecology and evolution comes from the network-like structure of multispecies communities that are close to instability. If true, these ideas might change our understanding of how complexity emerges in the biosphere and how macroevolutionary events could be decoupled from microevolutionary ones.

   pubmed/PMID-10322524-criticality-and-scaling-in-evolutionary-ecology/info.md

10. 10 · openalex-fanout0.720

    (2001) Complex Thinking, Complex Practice: The Case for a Narrative Approach to Organizational Complexity — cited 491x (2005) Complexity theories and organizational change — cited 474x (1999) The Place of Complexity — cited 348x (2006) Mind Design and Minimal Syntax — cited 275x (2006) From scientific literacy to sustainability literacy: An ecological framework for education — cited 237x (1995) Rethinking complexity: modelling spatiotemporal dynamics in ecology — cited 210x (2001) The physics of symbols: bridging the epistemic cut — cited 210x (2007) The Person in Context: A Holistic‐Interacti…

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