# Fractal evolution

**Published by:** [Distilled By Angela Gu](https://paragraph.com/@distilledbyangelagu/)
**Published on:** 2022-03-20
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Traditionally, evolution has been conceptualized as an ascension ladder, with apes turning into humans and humans turning into super humans through taking cold showers, adopting the morning routines of CEOs, and making regular pilgrimages to the gym. In the book Spontaneous Evolution, Bruce Lipton offers a new way of viewing evolution by suggesting that it’s less ladder-like and more fractal-like, with all organisms expanding to inhabit all environmental niches. There are three qualities in fractals that make them especially interesting: 1. Self-similarity 2. Self-replication 3. Infinite scaling within a finite space (hence many transport systems such as lung alveoli have fractal-like geometries as a way of increasing surface area) What all of this means is that every biological organism grows to fulfill a niche that is to be occupied by them and only them, their own unique place in the world where they have the potential for infinite growth and expansion by means of the same self-replicating code used to create the entire universe. Infinite scaling has served as the blueprint that guided the design of the universe. Leonardo da Vinci believed that everything in the universe was designed to be perfectly proportional to everything else. Galileo said that mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe. As Alan Watts so eloquently put it, “there are no mistakes in this universe.” Throughout the billions of years of its history, the universe has never made a single error. Events of mass extinction may seem cruel to the species affected, but without them, we wouldn’t be here. The game of life is rigged to mathematical perfection. All this stuff about design raises an interesting question about free will: do our choices actually make a difference or are they always just taking us to the same place? From what I’ve gathered, the farther along one gets on their spiritual journey, the less choices they believe they have. Free will is just choosing between enjoying this journey or resisting it. Knowing the difference between what we can and cannot control and choosing to let go of everything we cannot control.

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