How about a fractal of fractals?
Your circulatory system is a fractal for similar reasons that trees are fractals for similar reasons that watersheds are fractals.
Fractal structures are probably the rule rather than the exception for basic reasons of space and energy efficiency.
Here's another interesting fractal thought, where is the universe? In your head, or outside of it, or both?
So the neuronal structure representing the universe in your head is at least in some ways similar to the objective outside universe, if there is such a thing, and if there is such a thing then that neuronal structure in your head is also in(and of) that objective universe while also being similar to it.
A good term for fractals is self-similar.
Self-similarity all the way down.
I am a strange loop. - Douglas Hofstadter
It's in you, and you're in it. - Alan Watts
Your circulatory system is a fractal for similar reasons that trees are fractals for similar reasons that watersheds are fractals.
Fractal structures are probably the rule rather than the exception for basic reasons of space and energy efficiency.
Here's another interesting fractal thought, where is the universe? In your head, or outside of it, or both?
So the neuronal structure representing the universe in your head is at least in some ways similar to the objective outside universe, if there is such a thing, and if there is such a thing then that neuronal structure in your head is also in(and of) that objective universe while also being similar to it.
A good term for fractals is self-similar.
Self-similarity all the way down.
I am a strange loop. - Douglas Hofstadter
It's in you, and you're in it. - Alan Watts