I'll tie a couple of things together here and then throw out a question.

So we have animals and humans are networks themselves in and unto themselves, but also

their hierarchies, human hierarchies, animal hierarchies. This is another network

structure, which I guess depending on the species itself, I'm thinking of like, you know,

Peterson has the example about lobsters in a hierarchy where like the biggest, brutish,

strongest lobsters on

top of the hierarchy that's not the same in modern human hierarchies fortunately we you know we try to

promote the most competent or whatever but this structure then is it and there's something about

propagating whatever's at the top of that hierarchy, the singular down into the multiplicity, right?

Whether it's like your heart pumping blood into all your capillaries or the leader, you know, propagating principles into the human hierarchy or whatever.

The that's a that propagation is economized through fractal architecture, it seems like, and that would be the sublinear

you're describing, right? It's, you know, you can... Yes, so one that, yes, it doesn't have to be

sublinear, and that's where cities come in. I mean, biology is completely dominated by sublinear, fractal-like, power law scaling.

That describes with exponents in the word I used before of one quarter. That's sort of, in the most coarse-grained way of looking at the biosphere,

that sort of permeates everything. But you can have something called superlinear scaling,

which doesn't occur, almost never occurs in biology. It does, it's some there, one or two places it does occur for various reasons.

But overwhelmingly, almost everything you look at is sublinear.

The bigger you are, put in the colloquial language, the bigger you are, the less per capita

or the less per cell.

But you could have the opposite. The bigger you are,

the more you have for cell. That's not what happens in biology, but it is what happens in cities.

And I know if you want to make it. Yes. Yeah, I want to ask, is the difference there because biological organisms are closed systems or is the city is an open system?

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