Marc Berman
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first heard Jul 2026
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Those kind of natural fractal patterns are ubiquitous in nature.
They're not very ubiquitous in the urban environment.
So he's like, you look at a city zoomed in and zoomed out.
It looks very, very different than like looking at a forest zoomed in or zoomed out.
So there, I think there's some, and we're trying to quantify this, I think there's some ease that the brain has when there is this fractal structure where you can get the gist very quickly of a scene, just maybe looking in or out, you know what's going on, but in an urban scene, you can't get it as much.
So I think...
That's kind of more where we've been thinking about how to try to quantify these things.
So, you know, which I think is somewhat related to compression, but it also might have to do with this fractal structure.
And it's not, you know, again, I'm not a fractal structure expert or I'm not a...
fractal geometry expert it's actually not trivial to actually find the right way to to measure this but that's something else that we've been very very interested in is saying okay well maybe it's something about this fractal structure of nature that also makes it easier to process but then maybe you not you might not remember it as well another thing that oh sorry another thing that might be interesting to think about too is also our language
you know, we don't really have a language of nature like we do for the urban environment.
If I go to and see a forest, I might say trees, shrubs, grass.
It's not very semantically complex.
If I go into a city, you know, I might say Volkswagen, Toyota, BMW, Gothic architecture, you know, stop sign.
There's just so many more objects and so much more semantic complexity that also might make it harder to process, but maybe also easier to remember.
Thank you for saying that because...
It's possible.
And also, Sean, too, it's a little more complicated, too, because I think if we showed people perfect statistical fractals, like a Sierpinski triangle, I don't think we'd see restoration because that would be too boring in some sense.
It's too perfect.
And so you've had Carl Friston on the show and Tom Griffiths talking about Bayesian models of the brain.
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