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"... This same phenomenon--self-similarity--can be observed in many systems that were previously believed to be totally irregular and unexplainable, ranging from weather and the economy to the course of human history. For example, each tiny daily fluctuation in the weather mirrors the climatic record of the history of the planet. Each major renaissance in history is itself made up of smaller renaisssance events, whose locations in time mirror the overall pattern of renaissances throughout history. Every chaotic system appears to be adhering to an underlying order of self-similarity.

"This means that our world is entirely more interdependent than we have previously understood. What goes on inside any one person's head is reflected, in some manner, on every other level of reality. So any individual being, through feedback and iteration, has the ability to redesign reality at large. Mandelbrot had begun to map the landscape of Cyberia."

-Douglas Rushkoff
from Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace
(italics mine)

The art work reproduced above is entitled "The Universe and Man" and is based on a 16th century motif, which was later published by French astronomer Camille Flammarion in L'Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, 1888). Image courtesy of Photodisc, Inc.

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