Howdy

I've been reading Per Bak's study of self-organizing criticality, and it's damned interesting. Anyone read it?

I am a little surprised by his ego, though, which is the size of an entire planet. I love when he proudly declares he and his team 'discovered self-organziation'! I wonder how Prigogine feels about that claim? :)

Anyway, this topic is absolutely fascinating. It seems to me, yeah, of course there are robust principles at work for complex structures to aggregate and evolve, or else there wouldn't be any stuff, there'd just be big, boring clouds. Everywhere we look we see gradients and regularities in nature, everywhere we look we see fractal geometries.

That is all.