Now, the physical world operates slightly differently. Atoms don't spawn super-atoms, they generate molecules, which generate metabolisms, which aggregate into organisms, and then communities, and so on. It is important to remember that Systems are continuum streams , even if they can be analyzed and mapped using piecemeal quantum or statistical computations. Pixelled and digitized information still go through final smoothing processes, in order to become visually, audibly or conceptually meaningful and useful. This transduction establishes communication among assemblies, where each assembly utilizes energy and information in locally appropriate ways.
Models are pattern mappers .
Fractal and similar algorithms have shown merit re pattern application in many subjects, but their subtlety and behaviors don't relate to everyday human experience. Wave functions, inverse frequencies, do. And these are finding prominence again in such diverse areas as economics and the neuro-physiology of consciousness studies. I won't dwell on the intricacies or applications of conventional Power Laws per se, because the literature is fairly comlpete there. What we'll examine instead is a Power Law variation that binds behavioral levels.