The document discusses complexity in natural systems like trees and sound, using trees dancing in the wind as an example. It notes that while it is difficult to predict the exact movements of individual branches or sounds, there are repeating patterns at higher levels due to the trees' fractal structure. The document suggests that brainstorming could benefit from a similar structure that allows for rippling effects between ideas, in order to generate more complex patterns of thoughts, like the complex patterns that emerge from the chaotic movements of trees.

1. Thoughts - Ali Anani, PhD -
Complexity

2. The idea of this presentation sprang
up in my mind while standing nearby
trees, which were dancing and
singing with the wind

3. Idea are like trees they branch out
and grow and suddenly they start
dancing and whistling with the
storms of brainstorming

4. I took a video of the scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaIRrqkoh48&feature=youtu.beht
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5. Can we predict where the wind shall
send the branches?
Stop the video and try to guess where
a selected branch will move to

6. Even for a second in the future this
forecast will be difficult to prove
correct

7. Now, listen to the rhythm of
the singing trees
Can you predict the next sound

8. Again, this prediction might be
difficult even though you may notice
some repeating pattern in the music.

9. A sound wave is the pattern of
disturbance caused by the movement
of energy traveling through a medium

10. As trees have fractal repeating
patterns, so are sounds coming out
of trees
The orderly trees make sounds
of repeating patterns
Sound patterns coming out
of the chaotic wind

11. We talk about the Butterfly Effect
How about The Wind Effect?

12. A butterfly effect starts when a
butterfly flips its wings
A tree has many “wings”
I mean branches

13. When trees flip their branches
they whistle as well leading to
maximized “Butterfly Effect”

14. Not only that as trees have built-in
pendulums in their leaves’ structure
Stalk (Rebiola)
Leaf mass acting as ball

15. This way trees are composed of great
number of pendulums moving with
the wind together
Out of their chaotic movements comes
musical sounds

16. It is amazing how these
“tree pendulums” figure out to
“shout” with certain patterns

17. I wonder if this leads to
a valid suggestion!

18. Why not hold brainstorming sessions in a tree-format
structure so that “ideas patterns” may appear.
A tree rippling effect emerges influencing leaf and
tree surrounding it
We need brainstorming sessions with
rippling effects

19. Adjacent leaves go in different trajectories
The wind ensures that two adjacent leaves in a complex
system will eventually end up in very different positions after
some time has elapsed.
Watch the video again and see how true this is

20. A fractal is a never-ending pattern.
Fractals are infinitely complex patterns
that are self-similar across different
scales.
Do you feel the music coming from the
trees in the video are ending?
This is complexity in action

21. Small changes may cause
big effects in trees
Wax a tree leave and
its behavior changes

22. Water
on leaves

23. The drops of water magnifies the leaf
and we discover that its structure is
repeating
A tree leaf teaches us that
we live in infinity

24. So are the lessons from trees
We may plant seeds of hate for a job,
to give one example

25. So are the lessons from trees
The seed grows into a tree with
infinite possibilities

26. Always plant the seeds of
gratitude and spread
around the music of joy