A Healthy Complexity
This quotation comes from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, in an article about biological complexity:
When Dr. Ary Goldberger looks at an EKG, he doesn’t just see the signal of a beating heart, he also sees a musical score, with its diversions and sudden shifts in tempo. Or at least that’s what he’d like to see. Because, according to Goldberger, an EKG that lacks such variations reveals a sick heart, which can’t respond to the body’s demands.
It’s an interesting choice to use music as your metaphor for “statistically chaotic,” given how often music (especially popular music) is denigrated for its repetition. If Dr. Goldberger is really interested in some aleatory music, I’ve got a few suggestions for him…
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