The ScaleFree Pattern Language

Scale Free Patterns give us some tools to talk about things which occur across many different scales. HIV/AIDS, for example, can be viewed from various characteristic scales: genetic, cellular, immune system, person, family, community, national, or evolution of the species. ScaleFree gives us some tools for talking about things which cross many scales - the intrinsics of the situation. It allows us to link things across divergent scales, and to think in terms of Foamy Spaces, which have fractal properties, rather than dense fixed dimensions. Is there a way to build a fractal browser which gives us the ability to view things from the perspective of their intrinsics? Is there a way of using foamy spaces to understand complex, multi-scale, multidimensional systems? Can we speak about cascades of activities caused by intrinsics? Can we discover activation energies which are capable of causing a cascade of uplift?

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